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
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
States int he Confederacy:
- South Carolina
- Mississippi
- Floria
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Arkansas
- North Carlolina
- Virginia
- Tennessee
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
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:
the Missouri Compromise
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.”
Daniel Webster
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
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
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
George Washington
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
Law-making branch:
Legislative
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
Treaty of Ghent
1814
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
“Sic semper tyrannis!” What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”
John Quincy Adams
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
“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.
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”
Davy Crockett
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
“Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
