Week 24-28 Flashcards
What island was James Cook’s first voyage to?
Tahiti
Who sent Cook to Tahiti?
The Royal Socioty of London
What did the Royal Socioty of London want Cook to record in Tahiti?
The transit of Venus
What are New Zealand’s two main islands called?
North Island and South Island
What did Cook name the hospitable part of Australia?
New South Wales
Where/on what did Cook almost loose his ship, leaving Australia?
The Great Barrier Reef
Where did Cook go on his second voyage?
Past the Antarctic Circle
What masses did Cook call “ice isles”?
Iceburgs
What did Cook call icebergs?
Ice isles/islands
What was Cook’s original goal to find on his third voyage?
The elusive Northwest Passage
Instead of finding the Northwest Passage, what did Cook find?
The Hawaii Islands
What group of Islands are the Hawaii Islands part of?
The Polynesian triangle
Which island chain did Cook tour off of Alaska?
The Aleutian Islands
What strait caused Cook to turn at the end of his Third voyage?
The Bering Strait
Where did Cook die?
Hawaii
What did New South Wales begin as?
A penal colony
Who was the first govenor of New South Wales?
Aurthur Philip?
How many ships were in the First Fleet?
11
What was the first group of ships starting New South Wales called?
The First Fleet
What location did the First Fleet stop at first?
Botany Bay
When did the First Fleet land at Botany Bay (year)?
1788
What day do the Australian’s call the day the First Fleet landed?
Australia Day
What Bay was too shallow for Governor Philip?
Botany Bay
What cove did Governor Philip start the penal colony at?
Sydney Cove
What was the mediveal-era classes called that France used before the French Revolution?
The Estates of the Relm
What was the estate that represented the clergy?
The First Estate
What was the estate that represented the nobility?
The Second Estate
What was the estate that represented all others bestides clergy and nobility?
The Thirst Estate
What king was in desperate need to pay off government debts?
King Louis XVI
What group of people did King Louis sumoun to help him solve his national debt issue?
The Estates-General
Where did the Estates-General meet?
The Palace of Versailles
Which estate descided to have its own personal meetings
The Third Estate
What was the first French Legislature, made from the Third Estate meetings?
The National Assembly
The National Assembly was the first out of how many legilatures of France in the next 15 years?
Six, 6
Which guardhouse did Paris revolutionaries storm?
Bastille
What day did revolutionaries storm Bastille
July 14th
What is July 14th remebered as for Frenchmen?
Bastille Day
What march occured in the October of 1789?
The Women’s March
Where was the Women’s March to?
Versailles
Which palace was the king forceable moved into after the Womens March on Verailles?
Tuileries Palace
What new legislature deprived the king of his office?
The National Convention
What proclimation did the National Convention issue?
The Abdition of the Moncarcy
The day the Abdition of the Monarchy was issued was the first day of what Republic?
The First French Republic
What was the pouplar invention to behead the Frenchpeople, that was used on the king?
The guillotine
Who killed Jean-Paul Marat?
Charlotte Corday
Who did Charlotte Corday assasinate?
Jean-Paul Marat
What was the law that came from Jean-Paul Marat’s death?
The Law of Suspects
Jean-Paul Marat’s death was the trigger for what traumatice event?
The Reign of Terror
Where was Napoleon born?
The Italian island of Corsica
Where did Napoleon first show his capabilites?
Ecole Militaire
Soon after what event did Napoleon get a chance to prove himself?
The French Revolution
In what Seige did Napoleon prove himself?
The Seige of Toulon
What was the date that Napoleon defended the National Convention against rebels in Paris?
13 Vendémiaire, Year IV
Who did Napoleon defend on 13 Vendémiaire, Year IV?
The National Convention
Who was the first secretary of the US?
Alexandar Hamilton
What political party did Hamilton found?
The Federalist Party
Who was the third US President?
Thomas Jefferson
What political party did Jefferson found?
Democratic-Republican Party
What election (year) did the Federalist party severly loose?
The Election of 1800
In what yer did Napoleon turn to invade Austria?
1805
What nation did Napoleon invade in 1805?
Austria
In what Battle did Napoleon capture Vienna?
The Battle of Ulm
After the Battle of Ulm what city did Napoleon capture?
Vienna
What combigned army did Napoleon destroy at the Battle of Austerlitz?
Russian-Austrian army
In what battle did Napoleon defeat the Russian-Austrian army?
Battle of Austerlitz
The same fall of the Battle of Austerlitz which war did Napoleon win?
The War of the Third Coalition
What was Napoleons first achievment of 1806?
He captured Berlin
What was Napoleon’s second achievment of 1806?
He caused the colapse of the Holy Roman Empire
What monument stands to represents Napoleon’s sucess?
The Arc de Triomphe
Who was the renoun Miami chief?
Little Turtle
What Defeat was the most costly defeat US troops had ever suffered against a native tribe?
The St. Clair’s Defeat
Who did Washington apoint to train an army professionally agains the natives?
General Anthony Wayne
What was Anthony Wayne’s army called?
The Legion of the United States
What was the Legion of the United States first victory?
The Battle of Fallen Timbers
Which general won most of Ohio?
General Wyane
What territory was organized after the Ohio territory?
The Indiana territory
Who tried to unite the Native American tribes against the US?
Tucumseh
Who was Tecumseh’s nemisis?
William Henery Husdson
Who did Governor Hudson defeat while Tecumseh was away? (Tecumseh’s brother)
Tenskwatawa
In what battle did Husdon defeat Tenskwatawa?
The Battle of Tippecanoe
What was the war of 1812 a stsruggle for?
Upper Canada
What two Lakes were involed in the war of 1812?
Ontario and Eire
Who seized Fort Detrot early in the war?
Tecumseh
What Fort did Tecumseh capture ?
Fort Detroit
What naval battle did the US win during the war of 1812?
The Battle of Lake Erie
Because of the loss of the Battle of Lake Erie, what did the natives have to abandon?
Tecumseh had to abandon Ft. Detroit
Who caught up with the fleeing natives?
General Hudson
What Battle did Tecumseh die in?
The Battle of the Thames
Where was Napoleon’s last campaign to?
Russia
How many troops did Napoleon take to Russia?
400,000 - 700,000
How many troops survived Napoleon’s Russian campain?
20,000 - 40,000
