Week 26 Review Flashcards
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
The three men who met together to draft the peace treaty after WWI and the countries they represented:
- Woodrow Wilson- United States 2. David Lloyd George- Great Britain 3. Georges Clemenceau- France
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
Wilson’s idea for sustained world peace:
The League of Nations
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
Wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress’ attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”
John Quincy Adams
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.”
Daniel Webster
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
First president of the United States:
George Washington
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
Axis dictators at the beginning of WWII:
Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin Italy- Benito Mussolini Japan- Emperor Hirohito Germany- Adolf Hitler
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
“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.
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
Archduke of Austria-Hungary killed by a Serbian revolutionary:
Franz Ferdinand
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
Law-making branch:
Legislative
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
George Washington
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
“Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays’ Rebellion
