Week 24 Review Flashcards
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
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
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
explosion of the Maine
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
First president of the United States:
George Washington
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays’ Rebellion
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
scalawags
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
“Sic semper tyrannis!” Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
Inventor of the electric lightbulb:
Thomas Edison
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
“the shot heard round the world”
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
“Don’t give up the ship!”
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
“That man has an ax to grind.”
Benjamin Franklin
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress’ attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
“Don’t give up the ship!”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
