Week 28 Review Flashcards
1
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Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
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Treaty of Ghent
2
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Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
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crossing of the Delaware
3
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Head of the law-making branch:
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Congresss
4
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General at Bunker HIll:
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William Prescott
5
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Axis dictators at the beginning of WWII:
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Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin Italy- Benito Mussolini Japan- Emperor Hirohito Germany- Adolf Hitler
6
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“Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner.”
What was the occasion?
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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.
7
Q
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
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Boston Massacre
8
Q
Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
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scalawags
9
Q
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
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St. Augustine, Florida
10
Q
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
11
Q
The original name given to WWI:
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The Great War
12
Q
War between France and England in America:
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the French and Indian War
13
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Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
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Bacon’s Rebellion
14
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Date of the Constitution:
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March 4, 1789
15
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French and Indian War dates:
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1754-1763
16
Q
Land granted to William Penn:
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Pennsylvania
17
Q
“That man has an ax to grind.”
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Benjamin Franklin
18
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Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
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Monitor
19
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Explorer after whom our continent is named:
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Amerigo Vespucci
20
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Head of the Supreme Court:
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Chief Justice
21
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Head of the law-enforcing branch:
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President
22
Q
“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”
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John Quincy Adams
23
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“To the victors belong the spoils.”
Who said it?
A
Andrew Jackson
24
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The original inhabitants of this continent:
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Native Americans
25
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
26
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
27
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
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Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
29
Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
explosion of the Maine
30
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
31
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
32
Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
33
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
34
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
35
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress' attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
36
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
37
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
38
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
39
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
40
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays' Rebellion
41
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
42
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
43
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
44
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
45
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
46
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
47
Date America enters WWI:
1917
48
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
49
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
50
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
51
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
52
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
53
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
54
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
55
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
56
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
57
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
58
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
59
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
60
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
61
"Sic semper tyrannis!" What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
62
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
63
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
64
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
65
Harsh document drafted at the peace conference after WWI
The Versailles Peace Settlement/Treaty of Versailles
66
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
67
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
68
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
69
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
70
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
71
Wilson's idea for sustained world peace:
The League of Nations
72
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
73
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
74
The right of women to vote:
women's suffrage
75
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
76
Treaty of Ghent
1814
77
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
78
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
79
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
80
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
81
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
82
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
83
"To the victors belong the spoils."
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
84
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
85
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
86
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
87
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
88
Event that bankrupted the American economy, culminating in Black Tuesday:
Stock Market Crash of 1929
89
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
90
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
91
Era of hardship initiated by the crash of the stock market:
the Great Depression
92
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
93
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
94
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
95
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
96
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
97
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
98
"Don't give up the ship!"
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
99
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
100
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
101
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
102
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
103
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
104
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
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Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
106
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
107
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
108
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
109
"I have not yet begun to fight."
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
110
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
111
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
112
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
113
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
114
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
115
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
116
Dates of the Great Depression:
1929-1941 (or the 1930s)
117
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
118
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
119
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
120
Law-making branch:
Legislative
121
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
122
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
123
"Sic semper tyrannis!" Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
124
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
125
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
126
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
127
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
128
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
129
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
130
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
131
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
132
First president of the United States:
George Washington
133
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
134
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
135
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
136
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
137
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
138
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
139
"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."
Davy Crockett
140
"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
141
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
142
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
143
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
144
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
145
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
146
National Socialist German Workers' Party
Nazi Party (Nazis)
147
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
148
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
149
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
150
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
151
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
152
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
153
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
154
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
155
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
156
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
157
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
158
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
159
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
160
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
161
Archduke of Austria-Hungary killed by a Serbian revolutionary:
Franz Ferdinand
162
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
163
President during WWI:
Woodrow Wilson
164
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
165
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
166
Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
167
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Federal aid programs, begun as an answer to the Great Depression:
the New Deal
168
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
169
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
170
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
171
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
172
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
173
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
174
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
175
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
176
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
177
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
178
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
179
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
180
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
181
"Don't give up the ship!"
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
182
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
183
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
184
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
185
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
186
Inventor of the electric lightbulb:
Thomas Edison
187
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
188
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
