Week 28 Review Flashcards
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
Axis dictators at the beginning of WWII:
Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin Italy- Benito Mussolini Japan- Emperor Hirohito Germany- Adolf Hitler
“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.
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
scalawags
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
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 original name given to WWI:
The Great War
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
“That man has an ax to grind.”
Benjamin Franklin
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”
John Quincy Adams
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
explosion of the Maine
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress’ attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays’ Rebellion
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
Date America enters WWI:
1917
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
“Sic semper tyrannis!” What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
Harsh document drafted at the peace conference after WWI
The Versailles Peace Settlement/Treaty of Versailles
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
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
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
Wilson’s idea for sustained world peace:
The League of Nations
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
The right of women to vote:
women’s suffrage
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
