Week 25 Review Flashcards
1
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Father of the Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
2
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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
3
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Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
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explosion of the Maine
4
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Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
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January 1, 1863
5
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Chief frustration of American colonists:
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taxation without representation
6
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Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
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the Gold Rush
7
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Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
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Confederacy
8
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First European to reach India by sea:
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Vasco da Gama
9
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Columbus Discoverd America in:
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1492
10
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Framework for the government of the United States:
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the Constitution
11
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Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
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George Washington
12
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Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
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Manhattan Island
13
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War between France and England in America:
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the French and Indian War
14
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Law-enforcing branch:
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Executive
15
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R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
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“the shot heard round the world”
16
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“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
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General William Prescott
17
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Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
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minutemen
18
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“Don’t give up the ship!”
What was the occasion?
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naval battle in War of 1812
19
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King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
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Henry the Navigator
20
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Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
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Tecumseh
21
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Date of Boston Tea Party:
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1773
22
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Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
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Daniel Webster
23
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Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
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the Gadsden Purchase
24
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Inventor of the cotton gin:
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Eli Whitney
25
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
26
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
27
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
28
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
29
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
30
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
31
Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
32
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
33
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
34
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
35
Wilson's idea for sustained world peace:
The League of Nations
36
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
37
The right of women to vote:
women's suffrage
38
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
39
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
40
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
41
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
42
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
43
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
44
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
45
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
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"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
47
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
48
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
49
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
50
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays' Rebellion
51
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
52
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
53
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
54
Date America enters WWI:
1917
55
The three men who met together to draft the peace treaty after WWI and the countries they represented:
1. Woodrow Wilson- United States 2. David Lloyd George- Great Britain 3. Georges Clemenceau- France
56
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
57
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
58
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
59
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
60
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
61
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
62
"To the victors belong the spoils."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
63
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
64
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
65
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress' attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
66
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
67
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
68
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
69
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
70
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
71
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
72
Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
73
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
74
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
75
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
76
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
77
Two competing forces in WWI:
Allies: Great Britain, France, Russia, China, Greece, Japan, Belgium, Italy (from 1915), and United States (from 1917) Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire
78
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
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Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
80
First president of the United States:
George Washington
81
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
82
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
83
Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
scalawags
84
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
85
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
86
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
87
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
88
"To the victors belong the spoils."
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
89
"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.
90
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
91
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
92
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
93
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
94
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
95
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
96
Law-making branch:
Legislative
97
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
98
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
99
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
100
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
101
Archduke of Austria-Hungary killed by a Serbian revolutionary:
Franz Ferdinand
102
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
103
Harsh document drafted at the peace conference after WWI
The Versailles Peace Settlement/Treaty of Versailles
104
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
105
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
106
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
107
"Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union."
John Quincy Adams
108
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
109
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
110
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
111
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
112
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
113
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
114
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
115
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
116
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
117
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
118
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
119
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
120
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
121
"I have not yet begun to fight."
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
122
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
123
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
124
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
125
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
126
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
127
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
128
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
129
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
130
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
131
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
132
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
133
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
134
The original name given to WWI:
The Great War
135
"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."
Davy Crockett
136
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
137
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
138
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
139
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
140
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
141
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
142
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
143
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
144
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
145
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
146
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
147
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
148
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
149
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
150
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
151
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
152
Treaty of Ghent
1814
153
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
154
Inventor of the electric lightbulb:
Thomas Edison
155
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
156
"Don't give up the ship!"
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
157
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
158
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
159
President during WWI:
Woodrow Wilson
160
"Sic semper tyrannis!" Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
161
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
162
"That man has an ax to grind."
Benjamin Franklin
163
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
164
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
165
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
166
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
167
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
168
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
169
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
170
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
171
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
172
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
173
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
174
"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
175
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
176
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
177
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
178
"Sic semper tyrannis!" What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
179
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
180
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
181
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
