Week 29 Review Flashcards
1
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Law-enforcing branch:
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Executive
2
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Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
3
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Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
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Fort Sumter
4
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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:
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the Monroe Doctrine
5
Q
Harsh document drafted at the peace conference after WWI
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The Versailles Peace Settlement/Treaty of Versailles
6
Q
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
What was the occasion?
A
naval battle in the war of 1812
7
Q
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
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Puritans
8
Q
French nobleman who served int he American army:
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Marquis de Lafayette
9
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Date of The Mexican War:
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1846-1848
10
Q
American general who captured Mexico City:
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Winfield Scott
11
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First lasting English colony:
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Jamestown
12
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Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
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Boston Tea Party
13
Q
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
A
crossing of the Delaware
14
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“Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner.”
What was the occasion?
A
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.
15
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Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
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January 1, 1863
16
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Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
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Shays’ Rebellion
17
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Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
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Harriet Tubman
18
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Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
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Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
19
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Two bodies of Congress:
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House of Representatives and the Senate
20
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War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
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the Mexican War
21
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Those who opposed slavery:
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abolitionists
22
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Law-making branch:
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Legislative
23
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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
24
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Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
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July 1-3, 1863
25
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
26
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
27
Date the European Theater of WWII ends (V-E Day):
May 8, 1945
28
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
29
Treaty of Ghent
1814
30
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
31
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
32
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
33
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
34
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
35
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
36
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
37
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
38
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
39
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
40
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
41
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
42
"I have not yet begun to fight."
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
43
"Sic semper tyrannis!" Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
44
Even that started WWII:
Nazi invasion of Poland
45
National Socialist German Workers' Party
Nazi Party (Nazis)
46
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
47
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
48
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
49
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
50
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
51
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
52
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
53
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
54
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
55
American scientist in charge of the Manhattan Project:
J. Robert Oppenheimer
56
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
57
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
58
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
59
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
60
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
61
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
62
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
63
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
64
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
65
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
66
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
67
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
68
Date the Pacific Theater of WWII ends (V-J Day)
September 2, 1945
69
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
70
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
71
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
72
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
73
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
74
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
75
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
76
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
77
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
78
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
79
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
80
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
81
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
82
Systematic massacre of European Jews by the Nazis:
the Holocaust
83
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
84
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
85
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
86
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
87
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
88
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
89
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
90
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
91
"Don't give up the ship!"
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
92
Wilson's idea for sustained world peace:
The League of Nations
93
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
94
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
95
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
96
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
97
Axis dictators at the beginning of WWII:
Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin Italy- Benito Mussolini Japan- Emperor Hirohito Germany- Adolf Hitler
98
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
99
Date Nazis invaded Poland:
September 1, 1939
100
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
101
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
102
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
103
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
104
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
105
American general and commander of the Allied forces who organized D-Day:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
106
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
107
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
108
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
109
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
110
Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
scalawags
111
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress' attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
112
"To the victors belong the spoils."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
113
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
114
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
115
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
116
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
117
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
118
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
119
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
120
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
121
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
122
First president of the United States:
George Washington
123
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
124
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Federal aid programs, begun as an answer to the Great Depression:
the New Deal
125
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
126
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
127
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
128
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
129
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
130
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
131
Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
132
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
133
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
134
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
135
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
136
The largest land assault during WWII, also called D-Day:
the storming of Normandy
137
President during WWI:
Woodrow Wilson
138
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
139
"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."
Davy Crockett
140
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
141
Era of hardship initiated by the crash of the stock market:
the Great Depression
142
British prime minister who refused to give in to Nazi attacks during WWII:
Winston Churchill
143
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
144
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
145
The right of women to vote:
women's suffrage
146
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
147
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
148
Dates of the Great Depression:
1929-1941 (or the 1930s)
149
Event that led America to join WWII:
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
150
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
151
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
152
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
153
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
154
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
155
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
156
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
157
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
158
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
159
Organization of nations created to keep the peace after WWII:
the United Nations (UN)
160
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
161
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
162
Date America enters WWI:
1917
163
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
164
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
165
"That man has an ax to grind."
Benjamin Franklin
166
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
167
"To the victors belong the spoils."
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
168
The original name given to WWI:
The Great War
169
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
170
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
171
"Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union."
John Quincy Adams
172
Top secret project intended to create an atomic bomb:
The Manhattan Project
173
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
174
Date of attack on Pearl Harbor:
December 7, 1941
175
"Don't give up the ship!"
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
176
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
177
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
178
"Sic semper tyrannis!" What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
179
Two competing forces in WWII:
Allies: Great Britain (including Canada and India), China, France, Soviet Union (from 1941), United States (from 1941) Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, Soviet Union (until 1941)
180
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
181
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
182
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
183
Inventor of the electric lightbulb:
Thomas Edison
184
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
185
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
186
Archduke of Austria-Hungary killed by a Serbian revolutionary:
Franz Ferdinand
187
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
188
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
189
"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
190
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
191
President Roosevelt described the attack on Pearl Harbor as:
"a date which will live in infamy"
192
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
193
Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
194
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
195
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
196
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
197
Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
explosion of the Maine
198
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
199
Event that bankrupted the American economy, culminating in Black Tuesday:
Stock Market Crash of 1929
200
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
201
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
202
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
203
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
204
Two Japanese cities destroyed by the first atomic bombs:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
