Week 32 Review Flashcards
1
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Date America enters WWI:
A
1917
2
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First astronaut to set foot on the moon:
A
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
3
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Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
A
William T. Sherman
4
Q
United States national motto and meaning:
A
E pluribus unum- One out of many
5
Q
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:
A
the Compromise of 1850
6
Q
Event during Cold War in which the United States and the Soviet Union almost engaged in nuclear war:
A
the Cuban Missile Crisis
7
Q
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
Who said it?
A
Abraham Lincoln
8
Q
Name the thirteen original colonies:
A
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
9
Q
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
A
John Paul Jones
10
Q
“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”
A
Davy Crockett
11
Q
African American woman arrested for occupying a white man’s bus seat:
A
Rosa Parks
12
Q
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
A
Ferdinand Magellan
13
Q
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
A
Treaty of Ghent
14
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Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
A
Ulysses S. Grant
15
Q
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
A
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
16
Q
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
A
John Wilkes Booth
17
Q
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
A
Merrimac
18
Q
War between France and England in America:
A
the French and Indian War
19
Q
Date the Pacific Theater of WWII ends (V-J Day)
A
September 2, 1945
20
Q
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
A
Oliver Cromwell
21
Q
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
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Mason-Dixon Line
22
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Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
A
St. Augustine, Florida
23
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Federal aid programs, begun as an answer to the Great Depression:
A
the New Deal
24
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Head of the Supreme Court:
A
Chief Justice
25
The original name given to WWI:
The Great War
26
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
27
Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
28
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
29
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
30
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
31
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
32
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
33
"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
34
Treaty of Ghent
1814
35
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
36
Inventor of the electric lightbulb:
Thomas Edison
37
Event that demonstrated the end of communist rule in Europe and signified the end of the Cold War:
the fall of the Berlin Wall
38
The largest land assault during WWII, also called D-Day:
the storming of Normandy
39
Laws in America that enforced the segregation of races:
Jim Crow Laws
40
Era of hardship initiated by the crash of the stock market:
the Great Depression
41
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
42
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
43
"Sic semper tyrannis!" What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
44
"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
45
"I have a dream..." What was the occasion?
a speech in Washington against segregation
46
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
47
British prime minister who refused to give in to Nazi attacks during WWII:
Winston Churchill
48
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
49
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
50
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
51
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
52
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
53
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Who said it?
Neil Armstrong
54
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
55
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
56
"Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union."
John Quincy Adams
57
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
58
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
59
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
60
American general and commander of the Allied forces who organized D-Day:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
61
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
62
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
63
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
64
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
65
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress' attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
66
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
67
Dates of The Cold War
1945-1989
68
President who fought to put America ahead in the "Space Race" and was assassinated while in Texas:
John F. Kennedy
69
Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
scalawags
70
"To the victors belong the spoils."
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
71
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
72
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
73
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
74
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
75
Wilson's idea for sustained world peace:
The League of Nations
76
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
77
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
78
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
79
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays' Rebellion
80
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
81
Systematic massacre of European Jews by the Nazis:
the Holocaust
82
National Socialist German Workers' Party
Nazi Party (Nazis)
83
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
84
Date the European Theater of WWII ends (V-E Day):
May 8, 1945
85
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
86
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
87
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
88
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
89
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
90
The right of women to vote:
women's suffrage
91
"To the victors belong the spoils."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
92
"I have a dream..." Who said it?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
93
President Roosevelt described the attack on Pearl Harbor as:
"a date which will live in infamy"
94
Even that started WWII:
Nazi invasion of Poland
95
Dates of the Great Depression:
1929-1941 (or the 1930s)
96
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
97
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
98
Two Japanese cities destroyed by the first atomic bombs:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
99
"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
100
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
101
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
102
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
103
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
104
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
105
"Don't give up the ship!"
Who said it?
Captain James Lawrence
106
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
107
President during WWI:
Woodrow Wilson
108
Law-making branch:
Legislative
109
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
110
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
111
Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
112
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
113
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
114
"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
115
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
116
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
117
Plan to use the U.S. money to fund the reconstruction of Western Europe:
the Marshall Plan
118
The movement of protest in America against the unjust laws of segregation:
Civil Rights Movement
119
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
120
"Ask not what your country can do for you--- ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy
121
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
122
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
123
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
124
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
125
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
126
"Don't give up the ship!"
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
127
Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
128
Archduke of Austria-Hungary killed by a Serbian revolutionary:
Franz Ferdinand
129
Date Nazis invaded Poland:
September 1, 1939
130
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
131
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
132
"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.
133
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
134
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
135
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
136
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
137
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
138
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
139
First president of the United States:
George Washington
140
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
141
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
142
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
143
Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
144
Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
145
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
146
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
147
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
148
War fought against the Soviet Union's attempt to expand their influence south of the 38th parallel:
the Korean War
149
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
150
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
151
"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
152
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
153
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
154
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
155
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
156
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
157
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
158
Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
159
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
160
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
161
"That man has an ax to grind."
Benjamin Franklin
162
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
163
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
164
Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
165
Organization of nations created to keep the peace after WWII:
the United Nations (UN)
166
Event that bankrupted the American economy, culminating in Black Tuesday:
Stock Market Crash of 1929
167
Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
168
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
169
"Sic semper tyrannis!" Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
170
Dates of The Korean War
1950-1953
171
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
172
Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
173
Harsh document drafted at the peace conference after WWI
The Versailles Peace Settlement/Treaty of Versailles
174
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
175
War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
176
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
177
The second major conflict fought during the Cold War:
the Vietnam War
178
Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
179
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
180
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
181
Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
182
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
183
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
184
Event that led America to join WWII:
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
185
Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
186
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
187
Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
explosion of the Maine
188
Top secret project intended to create an atomic bomb:
The Manhattan Project
189
Axis dictators at the beginning of WWII:
Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin Italy- Benito Mussolini Japan- Emperor Hirohito Germany- Adolf Hitler
190
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
191
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
192
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
193
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
194
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
195
Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
196
Minister who led the Civil Rights Movement through non-violent protest:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
197
Date of attack on Pearl Harbor:
December 7, 1941
198
Dates of the Vietnam War
1957-1975
199
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
200
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
201
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
202
American scientist in charge of the Manhattan Project:
J. Robert Oppenheimer
203
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
204
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
205
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
206
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)
207
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
208
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
209
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
210
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
211
Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
212
Longstanding conflict between the spread of communism by the Soviet Union and the sustaining of democracy:
the Cold War
213
Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
214
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
215
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
216
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
217
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
218
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
219
Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
220
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
221
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
222
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
223
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
224
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
