Week 30 Review Flashcards
1
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Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
A
Harriet Tubman
2
Q
European credited with the discovery of America:
A
Christopher Columbus
3
Q
“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.
4
Q
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
A
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
5
Q
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
A
Boston Massacre
6
Q
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
A
George Washington
7
Q
Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
A
explosion of the Maine
8
Q
Two competing forces in WWII:
A
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)
9
Q
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
A
War of 1812
10
Q
Date of attack on Pearl Harbor:
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December 7, 1941
11
Q
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
A
Spanish-American War
12
Q
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
A
the Mexican War
13
Q
Date the European Theater of WWII ends (V-E Day):
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May 8, 1945
14
Q
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
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July 1-3, 1863
15
Q
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
A
carpetbaggers
16
Q
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
A
April 19, 1775
17
Q
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
A
the Treaty of Paris
18
Q
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
A
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
19
Q
Law-interpreting branch:
A
Judicial
20
Q
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
A
Mason-Dixon Line
21
Q
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
A
the Underground Railroad
22
Q
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
Who said it?
A
Andrew Jackson
23
Q
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
A
John Wilkes Booth
24
Q
Dates of WWI (The Great War)
A
1914-1918
25
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
26
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
27
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
28
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
29
President Roosevelt described the attack on Pearl Harbor as:
"a date which will live in infamy"
30
The right of women to vote:
women's suffrage
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
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
33
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
34
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
35
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
36
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
37
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
38
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
39
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
40
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
41
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
42
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
43
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
44
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
45
Even that started WWII:
Nazi invasion of Poland
46
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
47
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
48
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
49
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
50
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
51
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
52
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
53
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
54
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
55
"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."
Davy Crockett
56
"Sic semper tyrannis!" Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
57
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
58
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
59
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
60
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
61
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
62
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
63
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
64
Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
65
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
66
National Socialist German Workers' Party
Nazi Party (Nazis)
67
First president of the United States:
George Washington
68
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
69
American general and commander of the Allied forces who organized D-Day:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
70
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
71
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
72
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
73
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
74
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
75
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
76
The original name given to WWI:
The Great War
77
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
78
"Don't give up the ship!"
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
79
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
80
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
81
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
82
Plan to use the U.S. money to fund the reconstruction of Western Europe:
the Marshall Plan
83
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
84
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
85
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
86
Dates of The Korean War
1950-1953
87
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
88
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
89
Treaty of Ghent
1814
90
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
91
American scientist in charge of the Manhattan Project:
J. Robert Oppenheimer
92
Era of hardship initiated by the crash of the stock market:
the Great Depression
93
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
94
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
95
The largest land assault during WWII, also called D-Day:
the storming of Normandy
96
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
97
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
98
Inventor of the electric lightbulb:
Thomas Edison
99
"Sic semper tyrannis!" What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
100
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
101
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
102
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
103
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress' attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
104
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
105
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
106
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
107
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
108
Dates of The Cold War
1945-1989
109
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
110
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
111
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
112
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
113
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
114
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
115
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
116
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
117
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
118
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
119
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
120
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
121
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
122
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
123
Archduke of Austria-Hungary killed by a Serbian revolutionary:
Franz Ferdinand
124
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
125
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
126
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
127
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
128
"That man has an ax to grind."
Benjamin Franklin
129
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
130
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
131
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
132
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
133
Law-making branch:
Legislative
134
War fought against the Soviet Union's attempt to expand their influence south of the 38th parallel:
the Korean War
135
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
136
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
137
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
138
Date Nazis invaded Poland:
September 1, 1939
139
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
140
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
141
Wilson's idea for sustained world peace:
The League of Nations
142
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
143
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
144
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
145
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
146
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
147
Two Japanese cities destroyed by the first atomic bombs:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
148
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays' Rebellion
149
"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
150
Systematic massacre of European Jews by the Nazis:
the Holocaust
151
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
152
Dates of the Great Depression:
1929-1941 (or the 1930s)
153
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Federal aid programs, begun as an answer to the Great Depression:
the New Deal
154
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
155
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
156
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
157
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
158
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
159
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
160
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
161
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
162
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
163
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
164
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
165
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
166
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
167
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
168
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
169
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
170
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
171
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
172
Harsh document drafted at the peace conference after WWI
The Versailles Peace Settlement/Treaty of Versailles
173
Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
scalawags
174
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
175
"Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union."
John Quincy Adams
176
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
177
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
178
Event that led America to join WWII:
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
179
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
180
Axis dictators at the beginning of WWII:
Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin Italy- Benito Mussolini Japan- Emperor Hirohito Germany- Adolf Hitler
181
Top secret project intended to create an atomic bomb:
The Manhattan Project
182
"I have not yet begun to fight."
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
183
"To the victors belong the spoils."
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
184
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
185
Organization of nations created to keep the peace after WWII:
the United Nations (UN)
186
Event that bankrupted the American economy, culminating in Black Tuesday:
Stock Market Crash of 1929
187
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
188
British prime minister who refused to give in to Nazi attacks during WWII:
Winston Churchill
189
President during WWI:
Woodrow Wilson
190
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
191
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
192
Date America enters WWI:
1917
193
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
194
"Don't give up the ship!"
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
195
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
196
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
197
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
198
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
199
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
200
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
201
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
202
Date the Pacific Theater of WWII ends (V-J Day)
September 2, 1945
203
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
204
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
205
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
206
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
207
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
208
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
