J! History Flashcards by Jen Kennings

Richard Byrd explored what

Antarctica, North Pole (disputed)

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1928 peace agreement
Germany, France, US, others

Kellogg Briand

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Spain’s last territories in the new world

Cuba then Puerto Rico

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Charlemagne’s successor/son

Louis the Pious

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Charlemagne’s title

Holy Roman Emperor

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Florence is on what river?

Arno

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The Council of Clermont led to what?

The Crusades

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What Pope started the crusades?

Urban II

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French Jewish military guy, 1890s jailed for being a spy, exonerated

Alfred Dreyfus

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Pepin the Short’s son

Charlemagne

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Battle of Mobile Bay when/who

David Farragut, Civil War

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Fraunces Tavern where/why

Manhattan, Revolutionary War

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Warren Commission what

JFK assassination

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New York Tribune, go west young man, lost to Grant, liberal

Horace Greeley

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Wounded Knee when/where/who

1890
South Dakota
Lakota

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Last governor of New Netherland, surrendered to the British

Peter Stuyvesant

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1600s English philosopher
Empiricist
Social contract

John Locke

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Group after Neanderthals

Cro-Magnon

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First governor of Plymouth Colony

John Carver

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First governor of PR
Florida explorer

Ponce de Leon

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Led Scotland to independence 1300s

Robert the Bruce

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English king 1190s
Third crusade against Saladin

Richard the Lionheart

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Brother of Richard the Lionheart

King John

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Native American PA athlete
Won Stockholm 1912 Olympics

Jim Thorpe

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Launched the first liquid fuel rocket in Auburn, MA in 1926

Robert Goddard

1925 movie directed by Sergei Eisenstein

Battleship Potemkin

Prince who dated Catherine the Great

Grigory Potemkin

1905 mutiny in Odessa on Russian battleship

Potemkin

United Hawaii 1790-1819

Kamehameha

Danish king resisted Germany during WWII

Christian X

Danish kings 1513-1972 were all named ___ or ___

Christian or Frederik

1842 treaty that fixed Maine and New Brunswick's border

Webster-Ashburton Treaty

1400s Czech religious reformer burned at the stake

Jan Hus

Confederate capital

Richmond VA

Only Confederate state capital east of the Mississippi not captured by the Union

Tallahassee

AP reporter captured by Hezbollah and held in Beirut 1985-1991

Terry Anderson

Last Moorish kingdom of Spain

Granada

Moorish fortress in Granada

The Alhambra

Belgium king who exploited the Congo and was Marie Antoinette's brother

Leopold II

Catholic banned book list

Index of Forbidden Books

Swedish UN Secretary General killed in 1961 plane crash, posthumous Nobel

Dag Hammarskjold

Norwegian, first UN Secretary General

Trygve Lie

black volcanic glass

obsidian

Queen of the Netherlands through WWI and WWII

Wilhelmina

"The Great Orator" from New Hampshire

Daniel Webster

Continent whose northernmost point is Cape York Peninsula

Australia

Postmaster general and movie censorship czar

Will Hays

California "pathfinder" west surveyor, army officer, first Republican POTUS nominee, Kit Carson scout

John C Fremont

Chile's first head of state

Bernardo O'Higgins

Beautiful wife of Akhenaten, known for bust

Nefertiti

1714 King of England from Hanover, Germany

George I

Gunslinger killed in Deadwood SD in 1876

Wild Bill Hickok

Frontierswoman and Wild Bill Hickok's girlfriend

Calamity Jane

Vice president of the Confederacy

Alexander Stephens

Treaty of Verdun (843) divided his empire

Charlemagne

British-then-Canadian oldest chartered company in the world

Hudson's Bay Company

Nickname of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick

Barbarossa

Holy Roman Emperor drowned en route to a crusade

Barbarossa/Frederick

Legislature of France that met before the Revolution

Estates-General

Legislature of France that replaced the Estates-General

National Assembly

Father Michael McGivney founded it in New Haven in 1882

Knights of Columbus

French monk who led peasants in the early crusades

Peter the Hermit

Milton Obote was the president of this country until a coup in 1985

Uganda

First English translator of the Bible Pre-Protestant critic of Catholicism

John Wycliffe

Socialist labor organizer ran for president

Eugene Debs

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire during WWI

Central Powers

Apache leader surrendered in Arizona, died in Fort Sills Oklahoma

Geronimo

Defeated Geronimo in Arizona

Nelson Miles

Louis XV mistress

Pompadour

Brunelleschi was a 1400s architect in this city

Florence

1854 act letting states decide slavery

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1820 act balancing slave and free states

Missouri Compromise

Little Giant of Illinois debated Lincoln and later lost to him in the 1860 election

Stephen Douglas

Headed Committee of Public Safety Head of the Jacobins Reign of Terror ended with his execution

Robespierre

French revolutionary journalist with a skin condition, stabbed in a bath

Marat

French Revolution extremist club named after convent where they met

Jacobins

HMS Victory was the flagship of

Lord Nelson

Statue of him in Trafalgar Square

Lord Nelson

Mistress of Lord Nelson

Lady Hamilton

One-eyed British admiral

Lord Nelson

How was Kublai Khan related to Genghis Khan?

grandson

First emperor of the Yuan Dynasty

Kublai Khan

Marco Polo visited China during the reign of ______

Kublai Khan

Nickname for Mongol army

Golden Horde

1859 raid at Harpers Ferry led by

John Brown

Song that became Battle Hymn of the Republic

John Brown's Body

Union of Kalmar (1397) united these three countries

Sweden, Norway, Denmark

"Iron Chancellor" of Prussia/Germany late 1800s, blood and iron

Otto von Bismarck

Last emperor of Germany, last kaiser of Prussia, grandson of Victoria, fired Bismarck

Wilhelm II

1500s British circumnavigator

Sir Francis Drake

Helped England defeat the Spanish Armada at Cadiz

Sir Francis Drake

Name of Francis Drake's ship

The Pelican -> The Golden Hind

King and intended victim of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot

James I

Battle of the Boyne in this country

Ireland

King defeated at the 1690 Battle of the Boyne

James II

William the Conqueror's 1086 survey of England

Domesday Book

Island Napoleon was exiled on before returning to France in 1815

Elba

Island of Napoleon's second exile

St Helena

1800s feminist editor of The Lily, known for pants

Amelia Bloomer

maker of railroad sleeping cars

Pullman

1894 railroad strike company

Pullman

Boy Scouts founder

Robert Baden Powell

Girl Scouts founder

Juliette Gordon Low

Wrote Battle Hymn of the Republic

Julia Ward Howe

She inspired Funny Girl

Fanny Brice

British Antarctic explorer whose ship got stuck in 1914

Shackleton

Shackleton's ship

The Endurance

Philly site of 1774's first Continental Congress

Carpenter's Hall

Female evangelist, 1920s, fake kidnapping

Aimee Semple McPherson

Queen of Gospel

Mahalia Jackson

female president of Nicaragua 1990s

Violeta Chamorro

Nathaniel Hawthorne was friends with this president

Pierce

Developed the oral polio vaccine

Albert Sabin

Polio vaccine pioneer

Jonas Salk

Year that Hirohito died and Akihito became emperor of Japan

1989

The elder Mather

Increase

Rich fur trader early 1800s

John Jacob Astor

He sent the Spanish armada to invade England in 1588

Philip II

Los Angeles archbishop became youngest US cardinal

Roger Mahony

1964 resolution passed unanimously

Gulf of Tonkin

Reported attack on US destroyers here that started the Vietnam War

Gulf of Tonkin

Italian anarchists executed in 1927

Sacco and Vanzetti

Chicago pair who killed a child for fun in 1924

Leopold and Loeb

American nurse

Clara Barton

British nurse

Florence Nightingale

Father of Russian literature killed in a duel

Alexander Pushkin

PT Barnum small guy

Tom Thumb

A horse won a race against this in 1830

Tom Thumb locomotive

Founded the first European settlement on Greenland in 980

Erik the Red

Norse explorer found Vinland (North America) around 1000

Leif Erikson

City and state where the transcontinental railroad was completed

Promontory UT

Elizabeth II’s father

George VI

South Dakota anti war Democrat lost to Nixon in a landslide in 1972

George McGovern

Early 1900s Russian ballet dancer

Nijinsky

Soviet ballet dancer defected in 1974, nickname Misha

Baryshnikov

Prohibition amendment number

18th Amendment

UK PM after Churchill

Anthony Eden

UK PM invaded Egypt over the Suez Canal in 1956

Anthony Eden

UK PM after Eden

Harold Macmillan

King of Spain in 1975 after Franco’s death

Juan Carlos

“Caudillo” leader

Franco

“Generalissimo” leader

Franco

Hull House founder

Jane Addams

Holy Roman Empress

Maria Theresa

Star Spangled Banner written about this fort

Fort McHenry

Francis Scott Key city

Baltimore

American-born wife of King Hussein

Lisa Halaby —> Queen Noor

Queen Noor which country

Jordan

Son of Edward III who fought the French in the Hundred Years War

The Black Prince

Son of the Black Prince

Richard II

Edward III’s famous son

The Black Prince

Isle off the south coast of England

Isle of Wight

Victoria had Osborn House here

Isle of Wight

Island off the north coast of England Irish Sea

Isle of Man

Narragansett state

Rhode Island

Last Whig president

Fillmore

Mexican American war hero 1852 last Whig nominee

Winfield Scott

Last Whig to be elected president

Taylor

Whig Party years

1832-1852

Whig Party formed in opposition to who

Jackson

“Great Compromiser” Kentucky Whig

Henry Clay

Great Triumvirate of 1800s politics

Clay, Calhoun, Webster

John C Calhoun state

South Carolina

1832 first VP to resign

Calhoun

The Great Nullifier

John C Calhoun

Public Enemy Number One bank robber Escaped from jail and got killed in a theater

John Dillinger

Early 1900s swimmer and movie star (Tarzan)

Weissmuller

NY governor designed the Erie Canal

DeWitt Clinton

Inca city

Machu Picchu

Mayan city

Chichen Itza

Mayans centered in this country

Guatemala

Tikal

Mayan

Chiapas Highlands country

Mexico

Cat considered god to Mayans

Jaguar

Ford’s running mate when he ran and lost in 1976

Dole

Socialist French president 1980s

Mitterrand

1916 Irish independence attempt

Easter Rebellion

Up from Slavery autobiography

Booker T. Washington

Black educator

Booker T. Washington

1824 treaty settling land claims in the Pacific Northwest

Russo-American Treaty of 1824

Last Chinese dynasty

Qing/Manchu

"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" guy

David Farragut

First Stuart king

James I

Mary Queen of Scots' son and future king

James I

Executed after plotting against Elizabeth I

Mary Queen of Scots

Catherine of Aragon's surviving daughter

Mary Tudor/Bloody Mary

Bloody Mary real name

Mary Tudor

Mary Tudor's husband

Philip of Spain

Pope before Francis

Benedict XVI

Carranza was president of this country until his assassination in 1920

Mexico

"The Last King of America”

George III

Lincoln's only son to survive to adulthood

Robert Todd Lincoln

Secretary of War under Garfield and Arthur

Robert Todd Lincoln

Strom Thurmond state

South Carolina

Dixiecrat third place finisher in 1948 presidential election

Strom Thurmond

Only successful Senate write-in candidate

Strom Thurmond

Secretary of agriculture, FDR's VP, Century of the Common Man, Progressive

Henry Wallace

Mexican bandit

Pancho Villa

Mexican revolutionary played by Brando in Viva ____

Zapata

General and Mexican dictator 1877-1911 until revolution

Porfirio Diaz

"Swamp Fox" name and state

Francis Marion, South Carolina

Medieval German knights, black cross

Teutonic

George Wallace state

Alabama

Last third party candidate to get electoral votes

George Wallace (American Independent Party 1968)

Shot in MD by Arthur Bremer while running for president in 1972

George Wallace

Founded the Mughal Empire in 1500s India

Babur

Founded the Mughal Empire in 1500s India

Babur

Chichen Itza country

Mexico

Alfred the Great led this kingdom late 800s

Wessex

Progressive Wisconsin candidate 1924

Robert La Follette

Appalachian mountain gap

Cumberland

Road through Cumberland Gap

Wilderness Road

Blazed Wilderness Road through Cumberland Gap

Daniel Boone

Kentucky frontiersman

Daniel Boone

Natty Bumppo based on him

Daniel Boone

Newspaper Franklin bought

Pennsylvania Gazette

1973 Egypt-Israel war

Yom Kippur War

Netherlands seat of government

Hague

International Court of Justice location

The Hague, Netherlands

African American UN Nobel winner Arab-Israel truce

Ralph Bunche

She founded St Thomas’ Hospital

Nightingale

“Old Hickory”

Andrew Jackson

Jackson’s house

Hermitage

Wise Greek lawgiver

Solon

Built Tower of London

William the Conqueror

Won the Battle of Hastings

William the Conqueror

Black Arctic explorer

Henson

Central American country English official language

Belize

“British Honduras”

Belize

Italian city and former republic lost wars to Venice in the Middle Ages

Genoa

Charlemagne’s grandfather

Charles Martel

WWI French premier

Georges Clemenceau

Baron revived the Olympics

Pierre de Coubertin

Jeannette Rankin from this state

Montana

“Upper Peru”

Bolivia

“The Shawnee prophet”

Tecumseh

Battle of Tippecanoe state

Indiana

English king beheaded 1649

Charles I

English king exiled to France

Charles II

Pair of French explorers in the US

Marquette and Joliet

emperor after Caligula

Claudius

poet whose son was on SCOTUS

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The Great Dissenter"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Portuguese gambling colony returned to China 1999

Macao

lost to FDR 1940 presidential election, but got a lot of votes

Wendell Willkie

Reagan's last secretary of state, general, NATO, "in control", Nixon's last chief of staff

Alexander Haig

first American in space

Alan Shepard

first American to orbit the Earth

John Glenn

Tombstone lawman survived the OK Corral

Wyatt Earp

Tibetan former palace of the Dalai Lama

Potala Palace

reverend, rainbow coalition, keep hope alive

Jesse Jackson

oldest House committee, taxes

Ways and Means

Pope who hired Michelangelo

Pope Julius II

India former capital

Calcutta

abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson

Edward VIII

Duke of Windsor

Edward VIII

Duke of Windsor's relation to Elizabeth II

uncle

"Duke of Normandy"

William the Conqueror

Tuskegee airmen war

WWII

Tuskegee airmen state

Alabama

sheriff killed Billy the Kid

Pat Garrett

general, court martial 1925, air power advocate

Billy Mitchell

Muslim republic wants independence from Russia

Chechnya

Zapatistas took over this Mexican state

Chiapas

Pravda translation

truth

Canada Day date

July 1

Old Ironsides ship

The Constitution

first European to see the eastern shore of the Pacific (1513)

Balboa

French explorer founded Quebec

Samuel de Champlain

senator lost to LBJ in 1964 landslide

Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater state

Arizona

Mesopotamian temple pyramid

ziggurat

Mesopotamian Sumerian city

founded by Ignatius of Loyola (Spain)

Jesuits

silent monks

Trappist

NYC mayoral residence

Gracie Mansion

Wild West sharpshooter woman

Annie Oakley

Siberian mystic, mad monk

Rasputin

Irish horseracing lottery 1930-1987

Irish sweepstakes

Battle of San Juan Hill war

Spanish-American

Lancaster/York civil war

Wars of the Roses

"The Great Society" president

Johnson

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