C.L Test 1-40 Flashcards
What was Auschwitz?
The infamous CONCENTRATION CAMP established by the NAZIS in POLAND
How many major nations put death to people by Nazis?
Three
What is Bostille?
A prison in Paris where many political prisoners, and other offenders, were held and tortured until the time of the FRENCH REVOLUTION
What was the prison attacked by?
Workers (common laborers)
What is Alamo?
A fort, once a chapel in San Antonio
What is the Appomattox Court House?
A court house in Virginia where General Robert E. LEE surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant in April of 1865
What was the Civil War termed as?
’ Brother against brother
Who was Crispus Attucks?
A black sailor
Where was Crispus Attucks killed?
In the Boston Massacre
Who was Benjamin Banneker?
An African-American scientist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries
What did Benjamin Banneker teach himself?
Calculus and trigonometry
What was the Bill of Rights?
The first ten amendments to the CONSTITUTION of the United States
What does the Bill of Rights protect?
Freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and the press
What is blue and the gray?
The respective nicknames assigned to the Union and CONFEDERATE armies in the Civil War
What color uniforms did the Union army wear?
Gray
Who was Daniel Boone?
An American frontier settler of the late 18th and 19th centuries
Where did Daniel Boone explore?
Kentucky
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
An actor and an assassin
Who did John Wilkes assassin?
Abraham Lincoln
What is the Boston Massacre?
A clash between British troops and town’s people in Boston in 1770, before the Revolutionary War
Who out of the 5 people get killed in the Boston Massacre crowd?
Crispus Attucks
What was the Boston tea party?
An act of defiance toward the British government by American colonists
What was the Battle of Bunker Hill?
The first great battle of the Revolutionary War
When did the Battle of Bunker Hill take place?
June of 1775
