Week 32 Review Flashcards
Date America enters WWI:
1917
First astronaut to set foot on the moon:
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
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
Event during Cold War in which the United States and the Soviet Union almost engaged in nuclear war:
the Cuban Missile Crisis
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”
Davy Crockett
African American woman arrested for occupying a white man’s bus seat:
Rosa Parks
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
Ulysses S. Grant
Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
Date the Pacific Theater of WWII ends (V-J Day)
September 2, 1945
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Federal aid programs, begun as an answer to the Great Depression:
the New Deal
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
The original name given to WWI:
The Great War
Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
“Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.”
Daniel Webster
“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
Treaty of Ghent
1814
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
Inventor of the electric lightbulb:
Thomas Edison
Event that demonstrated the end of communist rule in Europe and signified the end of the Cold War:
the fall of the Berlin Wall
The largest land assault during WWII, also called D-Day:
the storming of Normandy
Laws in America that enforced the segregation of races:
Jim Crow Laws
Era of hardship initiated by the crash of the stock market:
the Great Depression
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
“Sic semper tyrannis!” What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
“I have a dream…” What was the occasion?
a speech in Washington against segregation
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
British prime minister who refused to give in to Nazi attacks during WWII:
Winston Churchill
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Who said it?
Neil Armstrong
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”
John Quincy Adams
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
American general and commander of the Allied forces who organized D-Day:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress’ attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
Dates of The Cold War
1945-1989
President who fought to put America ahead in the “Space Race” and was assassinated while in Texas:
John F. Kennedy
Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
scalawags
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
Wilson’s idea for sustained world peace:
The League of Nations
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays’ Rebellion
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
Systematic massacre of European Jews by the Nazis:
the Holocaust
National Socialist German Workers’ Party
Nazi Party (Nazis)
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
Date the European Theater of WWII ends (V-E Day):
May 8, 1945
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
