Week 31 Review Flashcards
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1
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Battles of Lexinton and Concord
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April 19, 1775
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Law that forbade colonists from building boats and required all goods to be carried on English ships:
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the Navigation Act
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President who fought to put America ahead in the “Space Race” and was assassinated while in Texas:
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John F. Kennedy
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The right of women to vote:
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women’s suffrage
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General at Bunker HIll:
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William Prescott
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American scientist in charge of the Manhattan Project:
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Actor who assassinated President Lincoln:
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John Wilkes Booth
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First time delegates from all the colonies met to discuss the rights of American colonists:
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First Continental Congress
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Date the European Theater of WWII ends (V-E Day):
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May 8, 1945
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Confederate ironclad ship that wrought havoc on the union fleet:
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Merrimac
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Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin:
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Date of The Mexican War:
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1846-1848
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“Slavery is in all probability the wedge which will split up this union.”
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John Quincy Adams
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Organization of nations created to keep the peace after WWII:
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the United Nations (UN)
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States int he Confederacy:
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- South Carolina
- Mississippi
- Floria
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Arkansas
- North Carlolina
- Virginia
- Tennessee
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Top secret project intended to create an atomic bomb:
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The Manhattan Project
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Commander-in-chief of the Union Army:
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Ulysses S. Grant
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French sailor who discoverd the St. Lawrence River:
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Jacques Cartier
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Head of the law-making branch:
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Congresss
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First lasting English colony:
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Jamestown
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President Roosevelt described the attack on Pearl Harbor as:
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“a date which will live in infamy”
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Date of the War of 1812:
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1812-1814
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“Don’t give up the ship!”
Who said it?
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Captain James Lawrence
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Law that inducted Maine into the Union as a free state and Missouri as a slave state and said no slavery will be allowed in the Lousiana Territory avoe the 36° 30° parallel:
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the Missouri Compromise
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Financed Columbus's first voyage:
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
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Inventor of the electric lightbulb:
Thomas Edison
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Inventor of the cotton gin:
Eli Whitney
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"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Date of the Constitution:
March 4, 1789
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Inventor of the telegraph:
Samuel Morse
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Those who opposed slavery:
abolitionists
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Event during which Americans dressed as natives and dumped tea in the harbor:
Boston Tea Party
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"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable."
Daniel Webster
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Federal aid programs, begun as an answer to the Great Depression:
the New Deal
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Bill that inducted California as a free state and allowed the Utah and New Mexico territories to choose whether or not they would be free or slave states:
the Compromise of 1850
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Land purchased by Jefferson from Emperor Napoleaon:
Louisiana Purchase
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Framework for the government of the United States:
the Constitution
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Head of the Supreme Court:
Chief Justice
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First form of representative government in America, established in Virginia:
The House of Burgesses
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General who fought the Sioux at Big Horn:
George A. Custer
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"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Who said it?
Neil Armstrong
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
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The Viking credited as the first European to visit North America in 1000 A.D.:
Lief Ericson
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"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
George Washington
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Law-interpreting branch:
Judicial
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First Continental Congress:
September 1774
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French nobleman who served int he American army:
Marquis de Lafayette
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"Don't give up the ship!"
What was the occasion?
naval battle in War of 1812
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System of secretly transporting slaves to Canada:
the Underground Railroad
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American pioneer who conquered California:
John C. Fremont
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"To the victors belong the spoils."
What was the occasion?
Andrew Jackson had won the election and given offices to all his friends.
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Separatists that sailed to the new land:
Pilgrims
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Borderline seperating Pennsylvania and Maryland:
Mason-Dixon Line
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Governor of the Indiana Territory who defeated the feared Native chief:
William Henry Harrison
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War fought to free American trade and earn the respect of other nations:
War of 1812
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War fought over the boundaries between Texas and Mexico:
the Mexican War
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Date Nazis invaded Poland:
September 1, 1939
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Document that signified the end of the French and Indian War:
the Treaty of Paris
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Men hired by Jefferson to explore the new territory:
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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President of Congress that accepted the Declaration:
John Hancock
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Father of the Constitution:
James Madison
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Second Continental Congress:
May 1775
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Date America enters WWI:
1917
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War fought against the Soviet Union's attempt to expand their influence south of the 38th parallel:
the Korean War
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Englishmen who desired a plainer and purer religion:
Puritans
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Invention that changed modern agriculture:
McCormick Reaper
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Date of Boston Massacre:
1770
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R. W. Emerson describes the first battle as:
"the shot heard round the world"
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Plan to use the U.S. money to fund the reconstruction of Western Europe:
the Marshall Plan
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Date of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
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British general forced to surrender at Yorktown:
Cornwallis
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Union general who captured and burned Atlanta:
William T. Sherman
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First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
John Jay
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War between France and England in Europe:
the Seven Years' War
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War between France and England in America:
the French and Indian War
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Event during which Washington surprised and captured the Hessians:
crossing of the Delaware
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Event that led to America declaring war with Spain:
explosion of the Maine
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Battle during which one hundred fifty Texans fought a Mexican army of four thousand:
Battle of the Alamo
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Puritans that left the Anglican Chruch altogether:
Separatists
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President of the Confederacy:
Jefferson Davis
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Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom:
Harriet Tubman
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First European to reach India by sea:
Vasco da Gama
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European credited with the discovery of America:
Christopher Columbus
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Traitor who plotted to give up the fort at West Point:
Benedict Arnold
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"I have not yet begun to fight."
Who said it?
John Paul Jones
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Harsh document drafted at the peace conference after WWI
The Versailles Peace Settlement/Treaty of Versailles
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Dates of The Korean War
1950-1953
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Dates of WWI (The Great War)
1914-1918
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"That man has an ax to grind."
Benjamin Franklin
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Land granted to William Penn:
Pennsylvania
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Event that led America to join WWII:
the bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Head of the colony in Jamestown:
Captian John Smith
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Law-enforcing branch:
Executive
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Three brances of the Amercian government established by the Constitution:
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
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The young American patriot who was hanged as a spy by the British:
Nathan Hale
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The largest land assault during WWII, also called D-Day:
the storming of Normandy
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Location of the first shot fired in the Civil War:
Fort Sumter
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Revolt that demonstrated the need for a stronger central government:
Shays' Rebellion
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Columbus Discoverd America in:
1492
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Date of the Emancipation Proclamation:
January 1, 1863
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Date of Boston Tea Party:
1773
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First English colony in America, which disappeared:
Roanoke
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British prime minister who refused to give in to Nazi attacks during WWII:
Winston Churchill
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Protectore of Engalnd who established the Navigation Act:
Oliver Cromwell
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First astronaut to set foot on the moon:
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
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Land purchased from Mexico in the West for building train routes to California:
the Gadsden Purchase
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Date of surrender at Appomattox
April 9, 1865
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"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." What was the occasion?
the first human taking a step on the moon
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Leader of the first expedition to circle the globe:
Ferdinand Magellan
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General of the Mexican army:
Santa Anna
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Native chief who led war against settlers in the Indiana Territory:
Tecumseh
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"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale
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Chief frustration of American colonists:
taxation without representation
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Name three heroes in the Battle of the Alamo:
Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, William Travis
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Date of the Battle of Gettysburg:
July 1-3, 1863
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Movement of many settlers to California in hopes of becoming rich:
the Gold Rush
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Two Japanese cities destroyed by the first atomic bombs:
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Famous American naval officers who fought in the War of 1812:
Captain James Lawrence and Oliver H. Perry
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Revolutionary battle lost by Americans but considered a victory:
Battle of Bunker Hill
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Volunteer soldiers ready at a moment's notice:
minutemen
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French and Indian War dates:
1754-1763
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English Sailor who discovered Cape Cod:
John Cabot
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American general and commander of the Allied forces who organized D-Day:
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Battle that was the turning point for the Revolutionary War:
Saratoga
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Date of the Louisiana Purchase
1803
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"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
What was the occasion?
speaking about slavery
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American naval officer who did great damage to the British navy during hte Revolutionary War:
John Paul Jones
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King of Portugal who suggested dit was possible to sail around Africa:
Henry the Navigator
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"To the victors belong the spoils."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
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Commander-in-chief of the Confederate Army:
Robert E. Lee
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Date of the Battle at Fort Sumter:
April 12, 1861
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Men from the North who took office in the South without having land in the South:
carpetbaggers
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Law passed by South Carolina in reaction to Congress' attempt to place a high tariff on foreign goods:
the Nullification Act
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First battles of the Revolutionary War:
Lexington and Concord
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Longstanding conflict between the spread of communism by the Soviet Union and the sustaining of democracy:
the Cold War
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Document that established a central government for the United States:
the Articles of Confederation
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"Sic semper tyrannis!" Who said it?
John Wilkes Booth
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Head of the law-enforcing branch:
President
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Battle that changed the course of the Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg
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Two competing forces in WWII:
Allies: Great Britain (including Canada and India), China, France, Soviet Union (from 1941), United States (from 1941) Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, Soviet Union (until 1941)
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"If I can ever hit that thing, I'll hit it hard!
Who said it?
Abraham Lincoln
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"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
Who said it?
Andrew Jackson
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Foreign policy that forbade European countries from establishing colonies in North or South America and told them not to meddle in American affairs:
the Monroe Doctrine
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"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
Who said it?
General William Prescott
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Head of the law-interpreting branch:
Supreme Court
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Men who were willing to vote for anyone who paid them:
scalawags
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Systematic massacre of European Jews by the Nazis:
the Holocaust
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Axis dictators at the beginning of WWII:
Soviet Union- Joseph Stalin Italy- Benito Mussolini Japan- Emperor Hirohito Germany- Adolf Hitler
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"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry
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Date of the Second Treaty of Paris:
September 3, 1783
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Date of attack on Pearl Harbor:
December 7, 1941
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President during WWI:
Woodrow Wilson
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Law-making branch:
Legislative
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"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
What was the occasion?
Battle of Bunker HIll
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Massachusetts Senator known as one of the greatest orators in the history of the U.S.:
Daniel Webster
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Oldest city in the mainland of the United States:
St. Augustine, Florida
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"Sic semper tyrannis!" What was the occasion?
the assassination of Lincoln
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National Socialist German Workers' Party
Nazi Party (Nazis)
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Date the Pacific Theater of WWII ends (V-J Day)
September 2, 1945
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Wrote the first dictionary in America:
Noah Webster
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"Perhaps so; but I shall have the honor of presiding at that dinner."
What was the occasion?
Battle of New Orleans, in response to a boast from a British officer that he was going to eat his Christmas dinner in New Orleans.
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Archduke of Austria-Hungary killed by a Serbian revolutionary:
Franz Ferdinand
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Even in Boston during which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed colonists:
Boston Massacre
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Even that started WWII:
Nazi invasion of Poland
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Era of hardship initiated by the crash of the stock market:
the Great Depression
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First president of the United States:
George Washington
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"I have not yet begun to fight."
What was the occasion?
naval battle with British
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The original name given to WWI:
The Great War
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Five causes of the Revolutionary War:
1. trade and navigation laws
2. stamp act
3. Townshend Acts
4. Boston Massacre
5. the Five Intolerable Acts
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Native Americans who aided the Pilgrims:
Samoset and Squanto
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Two competing forces in WWI:
Allies: Great Britain, France, Russia, China, Greece, Japan, Belgium, Italy (from 1915), and United States (from 1917) Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire
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Riders sent to warn Charlestownand Lexinton of the coming British army:
Paul Revere and William Dawes
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Document that signified the official end of the Revolutionary War:
Second Treaty of Paris
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Gift France presented to the U.S. during the presidency of Grover Cleveland:
Statue of Liberty
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First English sailor to circle the globe:
Sir Fancis Drake
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Inventor of the first steamboat:
Robert Fulton
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First state to secede from the Union:
South Carolina
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Event during Cold War in which the United States and the Soviet Union almost engaged in nuclear war:
the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Who establised the colony?
Sir Walter Raleigh
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Treaty that ended the Mexican war and gave the United States New Mexico and what was called Upper California:
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
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American general who captured Mexico City:
Winfield Scott
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Treaty of Ghent
1814
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Land purchased by the Dutch man Minuit for about twenty-four dollars' worth of trinkets:
Manhattan Island
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American general who defeated Santa Anna:
Zachary Taylor
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The three men who met together to draft the peace treaty after WWI and the countries they represented:
1. Woodrow Wilson- United States 2. David Lloyd George- Great Britain 3. Georges Clemenceau- France
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Name the thirteen original colonies:
1. Virginia
2. Massachusetts
3. New Hampshire
4. New York
5. Maryland
6. Connecticut
7. Rhode Island
8. North Carolina
9. South Carolina
10. New Jersey
11. Pennsylvania
12. Delaware
13. Georgia
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Explorer after whom our continent is named:
Amerigo Vespucci
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Slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom:
Dred Scott
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Two bodies of Congress:
House of Representatives and the Senate
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United States national motto and meaning:
E pluribus unum- One out of many
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Dates of The Cold War
1945-1989
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Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
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Event that bankrupted the American economy, culminating in Black Tuesday:
Stock Market Crash of 1929
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Date of the Gold Rush:
1849
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"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
What was the occasion?
naval battle in the war of 1812
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Government established by the states that seceded from the Union:
Confederacy
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War that forced Spain to give up all control of Cuba, Puerto Rico,and the Philippines:
Spanish-American War
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"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
Who said it?
Oliver Perry
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Document that signified the end of the War of 1812:
Treaty of Ghent
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Wilson's idea for sustained world peace:
The League of Nations
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Place where Lee surrendered to Grant:
Appomattox Courthouse
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The original inhabitants of this continent:
Native Americans
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Father of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
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Final battle of the Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
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Battle fought after the War of 1812 had ended:
Battle of New Orleans
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General who captured Quebec:
James Wolfe
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"Be sure you are right, then go ahead."
Davy Crockett
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Union ironclad that defeated the confederate ironclad:
Monitor
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Short civil war in Virginia during which Jamestown was seized:
Bacon's Rebellion
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Act of President Lincoln that declared all slaves free in the Confederate States:
Emancipation Proclamation
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Wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while held captive on a British ship:
Francis Scott Key
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The agreement that establihsed a form of government for the pilgrims:
Mayflower Compact
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Dates of the Great Depression:
1929-1941 (or the 1930s)
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American general at the Battle of New Orleans:
Andrew Jackson
