Week 34 Review Flashcards
First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
Event that demonstrated the end of communist rule in Europe and signified the end of the Cold War:
the fall of the Berlin Wall
First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
National Socialist German Workers’ Party
Nazi Party (Nazis)
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Federal aid programs, begun as an answer to the Great Depression:
the New Deal
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
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
Event that led America to join WWII:
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
Merrimac
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
The movement of protest in America against the unjust laws of segregation:
Civil Rights Movement
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Harsh document drafted at the peace conference after WWI
The Versailles Peace Settlement/Treaty of Versailles
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
John Wilkes Booth
“Sic semper tyrannis!” Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
President during WWI:
Woodrow Wilson
General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
War fought against the Soviet Union’s attempt to expand their influence south of the 38th parallel:
the Korean War
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
Era of hardship initiated by the crash of the stock market:
the Great Depression
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
Dates of The Cold War
1945-1989
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”
John Quincy Adams
War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
Date the European Theater of WWII ends (V-E Day):
May 8, 1945
Date of The Mexican War:
1846-1848
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
African American woman arrested for occupying a white man’s bus seat:
Rosa Parks
Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
“Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt
American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
Date Nazis invaded Poland:
September 1, 1939
Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
“If I can ever hit that thing, I’ll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
“I have a dream…” What was the occasion?
a speech in Washington against segregation
Minister who led the Civil Rights Movement through non-violent protest:
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
Axis dictators at the beginning of WWII:
Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin Italy- Benito Mussolini Japan- Emperor Hirohito Germany- Adolf Hitler
Even that started WWII:
Nazi invasion of Poland
American scientist in charge of the Manhattan Project:
J. Robert Oppenheimer
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
“Sic semper tyrannis!” What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
Inventor of the electric lightbulb:
Thomas Edison
Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
Dates of The Korean War
1950-1953
Archduke of Austria-Hungary killed by a Serbian revolutionary:
Franz Ferdinand
War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
Date of the War of 1812:
1812-1814
Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
“I have a dream…” Who said it?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
