Week 33 Review Flashcards
Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
“I have a dream…” What was the occasion?
a speech in Washington against segregation
First astronaut to set foot on the moon:
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
Head of the law-making branch:
Congresss
Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
explosion of the Maine
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
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
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
States int he Confederacy:
- South Carolina
- Mississippi
- Floria
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Arkansas
- North Carlolina
- Virginia
- Tennessee
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
Two Japanese cities destroyed by the first atomic bombs:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
“We have met the enemy and they are ours.”
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
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
British prime minister who refused to give in to Nazi attacks during WWII:
Winston Churchill
Event that led America to join WWII:
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
African American woman arrested for occupying a white man’s bus seat:
Rosa Parks
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
First president of the United States:
George Washington
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
Law-making branch:
Legislative
President Roosevelt described the attack on Pearl Harbor as:
“a date which will live in infamy”
Even that started WWII:
Nazi invasion of Poland
Date America enters WWI:
1917
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Date the European Theater of WWII ends (V-E Day):
May 8, 1945
Archduke of Austria-Hungary killed by a Serbian revolutionary:
Franz Ferdinand
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
“Don’t give up the ship!”
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
Dates of The Cold War
1945-1989
Minister who led the Civil Rights Movement through non-violent protest:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Treaty of Ghent
1814
Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
“the shot heard round the world”
Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
“To the victors belong the spoils.”
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
The movement of protest in America against the unjust laws of segregation:
Civil Rights Movement
Event that bankrupted the American economy, culminating in Black Tuesday:
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
Date the Pacific Theater of WWII ends (V-J Day)
September 2, 1945
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
Date Nazis invaded Poland:
September 1, 1939
“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”
Davy Crockett
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
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
Date of attack on Pearl Harbor:
December 7, 1941
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress’ attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
“I have a dream…” Who said it?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
Event during Cold War in which the United States and the Soviet Union almost engaged in nuclear war:
the Cuban Missile Crisis
Wilson’s idea for sustained world peace:
The League of Nations
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
