Week 23 Review Flashcards
1
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First Continental Congress:
A
September 1774
2
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Document that established a central government for the United States:
A
the Articles of Confederation
3
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Date of the Constitution:
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March 4, 1789
4
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Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
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Saratoga
5
Q
Treaty of Ghent
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1814
6
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“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
A
Patrick Henry
7
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Law that inducted Maine into the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state and said no slavery will be allowed in the Lousiana Territory avoe the 36° 30° parallel:
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the Missouri Compromise
8
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Head of the law-enforcing branch:
A
President
9
Q
Who establised the colony?
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Sir Walter Raleigh
10
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Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
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September 3, 1783
11
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Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
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Puritans
12
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Date of the Louisiana Purchase
A
1803
13
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French and Indian War dates:
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1754-1763
14
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Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
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Bacon’s Rebellion
15
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French nobleman who served int he American army:
A
Marquis de Lafayette
16
Q
“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”
A
John Quincy Adams
17
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“To the victors belong the spoils.”
What was the occasion?
A
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
18
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French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
A
Jacques Cartier
19
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The original inhabitants of this continent:
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Native Americans
20
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Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
A
Dred Scott
21
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Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
A
the Navigation Act
22
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Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
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St. Augustine, Florida
23
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Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
A
Tecumseh
24
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Battles of Lexinton and Concord
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April 19, 1775
25
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
26
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
27
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
28
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
29
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
30
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
31
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
32
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
33
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
34
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
35
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
36
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress' attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
37
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays' Rebellion
38
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
39
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
40
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
41
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
42
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
43
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
44
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
45
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
46
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
47
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
48
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
49
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
50
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
51
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
52
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
53
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
54
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
55
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
56
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
57
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
58
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
59
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
60
"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."
Davy Crockett
61
"I have not yet begun to fight."
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
62
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
63
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
64
"To the victors belong the spoils."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
65
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
66
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
67
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
68
States int he Confederacy:
1. South Carolina
2. Mississippi
3. Floria
4. Alabama
5. Georgia
6. Louisiana
7. Texas
8. Arkansas
9. North Carlolina
10. Virginia
11. Tennessee
69
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
70
"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
71
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
72
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
73
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
74
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
75
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
76
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
77
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
78
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
What was the occasion?
Battle of New Orleans, in response to a boast from a British officer that he was going to eat his Christmas dinner in New Orleans.
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Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
80
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
81
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
82
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
1. trade and navigation laws
2. stamp act
3. Townshend Acts
4. Boston Massacre
5. the Five Intolerable Acts
83
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
84
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
85
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
86
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
87
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
88
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
89
Name the thirteen original colonies:
1. Virginia
2. Massachusetts
3. New Hampshire
4. New York
5. Maryland
6. Connecticut
7. Rhode Island
8. North Carolina
9. South Carolina
10. New Jersey
11. Pennsylvania
12. Delaware
13. Georgia
90
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
91
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
92
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
93
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
94
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
95
"Don't give up the ship!"
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
96
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
97
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
98
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
99
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
100
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
101
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
102
First president of the United States:
George Washington
103
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
104
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
105
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
106
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
107
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
108
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
109
Law-making branch:
Legislative
110
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
111
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
112
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
113
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
114
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
115
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
116
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
117
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
118
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
119
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
120
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
121
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
122
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
123
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
124
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
125
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
126
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
127
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
128
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
129
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
130
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
131
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
132
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
133
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
134
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
135
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
136
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
137
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
138
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
139
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
140
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
141
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
142
"That man has an ax to grind."
Benjamin Franklin
143
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
144
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
145
Bill that inducted California as a free state and allowed the Utah and New Mexico territories to choose whether or not they would be free or slave states:
the Compromise of 1850
146
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
147
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
148
"Don't give up the ship!"
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
149
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
150
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
151
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
152
Foreign policy that forbade European countries from establishing colonies in North or South America and told them not to meddle in American affairs:
the Monroe Doctrine
153
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
154
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
155
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
156
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
157
Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
158
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
159
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
160
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
