Week 26 Review Flashcards
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First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
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John Jay
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Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Separatists that sailed to the new land:
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Pilgrims
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President of the Confederacy:
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Jefferson Davis
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First English colony in America, which disappeared:
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Roanoke
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Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
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Merrimac
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Father of the Constitution:
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James Madison
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Father of the Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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The three men who met together to draft the peace treaty after WWI and the countries they represented:
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- Woodrow Wilson- United States 2. David Lloyd George- Great Britain 3. Georges Clemenceau- France
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Date of Boston Massacre:
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1770
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The original inhabitants of this continent:
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Native Americans
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System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
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the Underground Railroad
13
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American pioneer who conquered California:
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John C. Fremont
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King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
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Henry the Navigator
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American general who captured Mexico City:
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Winfield Scott
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Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
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Battle of Bunker Hill
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Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
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Statue of Liberty
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Wilson’s idea for sustained world peace:
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The League of Nations
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Date of the Louisiana Purchase
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1803
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Wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” while held captive on a British ship:
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Francis Scott Key
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Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
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Samoset and Squanto
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Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
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January 1, 1863
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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
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General who captured Quebec:
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James Wolfe
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Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress' attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
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Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
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Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
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War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
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Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
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"Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union."
John Quincy Adams
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Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
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"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
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British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
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Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
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"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
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Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
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Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
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First president of the United States:
George Washington
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French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
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Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
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"I have not yet begun to fight."
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
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Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
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General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
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Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
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Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
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Axis dictators at the beginning of WWII:
Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin Italy- Benito Mussolini Japan- Emperor Hirohito Germany- Adolf Hitler
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Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
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Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
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Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
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Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
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War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
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Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
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Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
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War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
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"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.
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Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
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Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
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Archduke of Austria-Hungary killed by a Serbian revolutionary:
Franz Ferdinand
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First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
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Law-making branch:
Legislative
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General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
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Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
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Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
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Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
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First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
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Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
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"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
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Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
72
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
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Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
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Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
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Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays' Rebellion
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"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
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Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
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The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
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"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
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"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
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President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
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The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
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Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
scalawags
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Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
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Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
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Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
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Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
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The original name given to WWI:
The Great War
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Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
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"Don't give up the ship!"
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
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Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
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Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
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First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
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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
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First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
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Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
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First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
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Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
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"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
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Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
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Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
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Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
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First Continental Congress:
September 1774
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Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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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
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Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
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Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
108
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
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Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
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Harsh document drafted at the peace conference after WWI
The Versailles Peace Settlement/Treaty of Versailles
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English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
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Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
113
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
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Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
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Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
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R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
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"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
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Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
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United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
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Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
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Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
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Date America enters WWI:
1917
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Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
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Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
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Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
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Inventor of the electric lightbulb:
Thomas Edison
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Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
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Era of hardship initiated by the crash of the stock market:
the Great Depression
129
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
130
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
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War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
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Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
133
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
134
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
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"That man has an ax to grind."
Benjamin Franklin
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
138
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
139
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
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American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
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"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
143
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
144
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
145
Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
explosion of the Maine
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Dates of the Great Depression:
1929-1941 (or the 1930s)
147
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
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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
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French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
150
Event that bankrupted the American economy, culminating in Black Tuesday:
Stock Market Crash of 1929
151
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
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"Don't give up the ship!"
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
153
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
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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:
the Monroe Doctrine
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Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
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American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
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National Socialist German Workers' Party
Nazi Party (Nazis)
158
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
159
President during WWI:
Woodrow Wilson
160
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
161
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
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Treaty of Ghent
1814
163
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
164
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
165
The right of women to vote:
women's suffrage
166
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
167
"Sic semper tyrannis!" What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
168
"To the victors belong the spoils."
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
169
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
170
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
171
"To the victors belong the spoils."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
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"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
173
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
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European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
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Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
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Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
177
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
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Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
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"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."
Davy Crockett
180
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
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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:
the Missouri Compromise
182
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
183
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Federal aid programs, begun as an answer to the Great Depression:
the New Deal
184
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
185
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
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Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
187
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
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"Sic semper tyrannis!" Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
