Week 29 Review Flashcards
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
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
Harsh document drafted at the peace conference after WWI
The Versailles Peace Settlement/Treaty of Versailles
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
“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.
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays’ Rebellion
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
Law-making branch:
Legislative
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
Date the European Theater of WWII ends (V-E Day):
May 8, 1945
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
Treaty of Ghent
1814
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
“Sic semper tyrannis!” Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
Even that started WWII:
Nazi invasion of Poland
National Socialist German Workers’ Party
Nazi Party (Nazis)
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
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
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
American scientist in charge of the Manhattan Project:
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
Date the Pacific Theater of WWII ends (V-J Day)
September 2, 1945
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
George Washington
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
