Cornel 1-20 Flashcards
(40 cards)
A fort, once a chapel, in San Antonio, Texas.
What is Alamo?
The Mexicans, under the command of General Santa Anna, besieged the Alamo, and eventually killed all of the defenders.
Who was Davy Crockett?
Appomattox court house.
What is Verginia?
General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S Grant in April of 1865.
What effectively ended the American Civil War?
A black sailor killed in the Boston Massacre.
Who was Crispus Attucks?
It is purported that Crispus Attucks was among the first American to die in the struggle for liberty.
What was the Boston Massacre?
African-American scientist of the late 18th and early 19th centries.
Who was Benjamin Banneker?
Banneker taught himself in order to make astronomical calculations for trigonometry.
What was Calculus and trigonometry?
The first ten amendments of the constitution.
What was the Bill of Rights?
The first ten amendments.
What is the constitution?
The respective nicknames assigned to the union and confederate armies in the civil war.
What is Blue and Gray?
The respected nicknames assigned to the union and confederate armies.
What was the Civil War?
An American frontier.
Who was Daniel Boone?
The infamous concentration camp.
What is Auschwitz?
Camp established by Nazis and Poland.
What is the concentration camp?
A prison in Paris.
What is Bastille?
A prison.
Where is Paris?
Daniel Boone was an American frontier settler.
What was the Late 18th and Early 19th century?
The assassin of Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
John assassinated a famous person.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
A clash between British troops and town’s people in boston.
What was the Boston Massacre?
Boston massacre was a clash between British troops and town’s people in Boston in 1770.
What was before the Revolutionary War.
This was an act.
What was the Boston Tea Party?
The Boston Tea Party was an act of defiance toward the British government.
Who where the American colonists?
