Week 31 Review Flashcards
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
President who fought to put America ahead in the “Space Race” and was assassinated while in Texas:
John F. Kennedy
The right of women to vote:
women’s suffrage
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
American scientist in charge of the Manhattan Project:
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
Date the European Theater of WWII ends (V-E Day):
May 8, 1945
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”
John Quincy Adams
Organization of nations created to keep the peace after WWII:
the United Nations (UN)
States int he Confederacy:
- South Carolina
- Mississippi
- Floria
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Arkansas
- North Carlolina
- Virginia
- Tennessee
Top secret project intended to create an atomic bomb:
The Manhattan Project
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
President Roosevelt described the attack on Pearl Harbor as:
“a date which will live in infamy”
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
“Don’t give up the ship!”
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
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
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
Inventor of the electric lightbulb:
Thomas Edison
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.”
Daniel Webster
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Federal aid programs, begun as an answer to the Great Depression:
the New Deal
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
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Who said it?
Neil Armstrong
“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.”
George Washington
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
“Don’t give up the ship!”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
Date Nazis invaded Poland:
September 1, 1939
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
Date America enters WWI:
1917
War fought against the Soviet Union’s attempt to expand their influence south of the 38th parallel:
the Korean War
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
“the shot heard round the world”
Plan to use the U.S. money to fund the reconstruction of Western Europe:
the Marshall Plan
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
explosion of the Maine
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
Harsh document drafted at the peace conference after WWI
The Versailles Peace Settlement/Treaty of Versailles
Dates of The Korean War
1950-1953
Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
“That man has an ax to grind.”
Benjamin Franklin
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
Event that led America to join WWII:
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
The largest land assault during WWII, also called D-Day:
the storming of Normandy
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays’ Rebellion
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
British prime minister who refused to give in to Nazi attacks during WWII:
Winston Churchill
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
First astronaut to set foot on the moon:
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” What was the occasion?
the first human taking a step on the moon
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
Two Japanese cities destroyed by the first atomic bombs:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
American general and commander of the Allied forces who organized D-Day:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress’ attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
Longstanding conflict between the spread of communism by the Soviet Union and the sustaining of democracy:
the Cold War
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
“Sic semper tyrannis!” Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
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)
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
“Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner.”
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
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
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
scalawags
Systematic massacre of European Jews by the Nazis:
the Holocaust
Axis dictators at the beginning of WWII:
Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin Italy- Benito Mussolini Japan- Emperor Hirohito Germany- Adolf Hitler
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
Date of attack on Pearl Harbor:
December 7, 1941
President during WWI:
Woodrow Wilson
Law-making branch:
Legislative
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
“Sic semper tyrannis!” What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
National Socialist German Workers’ Party
Nazi Party (Nazis)
Date the Pacific Theater of WWII ends (V-J Day)
September 2, 1945
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
“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.
Archduke of Austria-Hungary killed by a Serbian revolutionary:
Franz Ferdinand
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
Even that started WWII:
Nazi invasion of Poland
Era of hardship initiated by the crash of the stock market:
the Great Depression
First president of the United States:
George Washington
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
The original name given to WWI:
The Great War
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
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
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
Event during Cold War in which the United States and the Soviet Union almost engaged in nuclear war:
the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
Treaty of Ghent
1814
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
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
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
Dates of The Cold War
1945-1989
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
Event that bankrupted the American economy, culminating in Black Tuesday:
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
Wilson’s idea for sustained world peace:
The League of Nations
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”
Davy Crockett
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
Wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner” while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
Dates of the Great Depression:
1929-1941 (or the 1930s)
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
