Week 27 Review Flashcards
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
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
The right of women to vote:
women’s suffrage
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
scalawags
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
“That man has an ax to grind.”
Benjamin Franklin
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
Wilson’s idea for sustained world peace:
The League of Nations
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
The original name given to WWI:
The Great War
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
George Washington
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
First president of the United States:
George Washington
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
Date America enters WWI:
1917
“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.
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
National Socialist German Workers’ Party
Nazi Party (Nazis)
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.”
Daniel Webster
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
explosion of the Maine
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
