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
