Week 24 Review Flashcards
1
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Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
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Legislative, Executive, Judicial
2
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Battles of Lexinton and Concord
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April 19, 1775
3
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War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
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Spanish-American War
4
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Foreign policy that forbade European countries from establishing colonies in North or South America and told them not to meddle in American affairs:
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the Monroe Doctrine
5
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Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
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Benedict Arnold
6
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Date of The Mexican War:
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1846-1848
7
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Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
8
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Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
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the Gold Rush
9
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Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
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explosion of the Maine
10
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First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
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The House of Burgesses
11
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First president of the United States:
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George Washington
12
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Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
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Shays’ Rebellion
13
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Head of the law-enforcing branch:
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President
14
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War between France and England in America:
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the French and Indian War
15
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Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
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Mason-Dixon Line
16
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Date of the Gold Rush:
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1849
17
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Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
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scalawags
18
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First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
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First Continental Congress
19
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Second Continental Congress:
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May 1775
20
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“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
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Oliver Perry
21
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Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
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Confederacy
22
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First state to secede from the Union:
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South Carolina
23
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Date of the Louisiana Purchase
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1803
24
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Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
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Yorktown
25
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
26
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
27
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
28
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
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Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
30
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
31
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
32
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
33
"Sic semper tyrannis!" Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
34
"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
35
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
36
Inventor of the electric lightbulb:
Thomas Edison
37
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
38
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
39
"Don't give up the ship!"
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
40
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
41
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
42
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
43
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
44
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
45
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
46
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
47
"That man has an ax to grind."
Benjamin Franklin
48
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
49
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
50
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
51
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
52
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
53
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
54
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
55
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
56
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
57
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
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Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
59
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
60
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
61
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
62
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
63
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
64
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress' attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
65
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
66
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
67
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
68
"Don't give up the ship!"
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
69
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
70
Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
71
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
72
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
73
"To the victors belong the spoils."
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
74
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
75
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
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Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
77
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
78
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
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Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
80
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
81
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
82
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
83
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
84
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
85
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
86
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
87
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
88
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
89
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
90
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
91
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
92
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
93
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
94
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
95
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
96
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
97
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
98
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
99
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
100
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
101
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
102
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
103
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
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The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
105
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
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First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
107
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
108
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
109
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
110
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
111
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
112
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
113
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
114
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
115
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
116
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
117
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
118
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
119
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
120
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
121
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
122
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
123
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
124
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
125
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
126
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
127
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
128
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
129
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
130
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
131
Law-making branch:
Legislative
132
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
133
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
134
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
135
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
136
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
137
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
138
"To the victors belong the spoils."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
139
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
140
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
141
Treaty of Ghent
1814
142
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
143
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
144
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
145
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
146
"Sic semper tyrannis!" What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
147
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
148
"I have not yet begun to fight."
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
149
"Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union."
John Quincy Adams
150
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
151
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
152
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
153
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
154
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
155
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
156
"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.
157
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
158
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
159
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
160
"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."
Davy Crockett
161
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
162
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
163
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
164
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
165
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
166
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
167
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
168
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
169
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
170
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
171
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
