Week 30 Review Flashcards
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
“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.
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
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
Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
explosion of the Maine
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)
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
Date of attack on Pearl Harbor:
December 7, 1941
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
Date the European Theater of WWII ends (V-E Day):
May 8, 1945
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
President Roosevelt described the attack on Pearl Harbor as:
“a date which will live in infamy”
The right of women to vote:
women’s suffrage
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
Even that started WWII:
Nazi invasion of Poland
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
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
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
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
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”
Davy Crockett
“Sic semper tyrannis!” Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
Wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
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
National Socialist German Workers’ Party
Nazi Party (Nazis)
First president of the United States:
George Washington
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
American general and commander of the Allied forces who organized D-Day:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
The original name given to WWI:
The Great War
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
“Don’t give up the ship!”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
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
Plan to use the U.S. money to fund the reconstruction of Western Europe:
the Marshall Plan
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
