Week 8 Review Flashcards
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
“the shot heard round the world”
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
