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