Week 9 Review Flashcards
European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
Who said it?
General William Prescott
First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
“the shot heard round the world”
The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
the Navigation Act
Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
“That man has an ax to grind.”
Benjamin Franklin
President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
“I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”
Nathan Hale
“I have not yet begun to fight.”
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
First Continental Congress
The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
Financed Columbus’s first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
General at Bunker HIll:
William Prescott
Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon’s Rebellion
Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
- trade and navigation laws
- stamp act
- Townshend Acts
- Boston Massacre
- the Five Intolerable Acts
Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
Name the thirteen original colonies:
- Virginia
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- New York
- Maryland
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Delaware
- Georgia
French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
Jacques Cartier
Battles of Lexinton and Concord
April 19, 1775
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”
Patrick Henry
First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years’ War
The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
First lasting English colony:
Jamestown
American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment’s notice:
minutemen
Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars’ worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes!”
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
First Continental Congress:
September 1774
