U.S. History Test 6
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1849 | Year of the California Gold Rush |
| 1854 | Year of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill |
| 1865 | Year that Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox |
| 1861-65 | Years of the Civil War |
| 1848 | Year of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
| Andrew Jackson | First President to use the spoils system on a federal level. |
| Lewis and Clark | Two men who led the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase |
| John Quincy Adams | Winner of the favorite sons' election of 1824 |
| Stephen Decatur | Hero of the Tripolitan War |
| Old Ironsides | Nickname of the U.S.S. Constitution |
| Cyrus Field | Laid the Transatlantic cable |
| Matthew Maury | Surveyed the Transatlantic cable |
| Martin Van Buren | Jackson's second vice president |
| Eli Whitney | inventor of the cotton gin |
| Robert Fulton | Built the Clermont |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Author of The Raven |
| John Deere | Inventor of the 1st steel plow |
| Union Party | Name of the Republican Party during the election of 1864 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Martin Van Buren | Leader of the Free Soil Party |
| Millard Filmore | President Taylor's replacement |
| Robert E. Lee | Took John Brown's men at Harper's Ferry |
| Sam Houston | First and only President of the Lone Star Republic |
| Salmon Chase | Said, "In God we trust." |
| Samuel de Champlain | Father of New France |
| Noah Webster | "He taught millions to read and not one to sin." |
| Walt Whitman | Author of Leaves of Grass |
| domestic system | term for manufacturing done at home |
| University of North Carolina | 1st state university to operate |
| Francis Parkman | Famous historian and author of the California and Oregon Trail |
| Josiah Holbrook | Founder of the lyceum movement |
| Horace Mann | Unitarist promoter of public education |
| Benjamin Latrobe | Designed the capitol building |
| James Fenimore Cooper | Author of the Leatherstocking Tales |
| Hitton Rowan Helper | Wrote the Impending Crisis of the South |
| Rip Van Winkle | Washington Irving's short story that became a famous play |
| Steven Foster | Most loved American composer of popular music |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Editor of The Liberator |
| Holmes, Lowell, Longfellow, Whittier | Fireroom and Schoolroom Poets |
| Liberia | Country founded for freed American slaves |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Author of The House of Seven Gables |
| April 12, 1861 to April 9, 1865 | Exact dates of the Civil War |
| Stephen Austin | Founded a settlement in Texas |
| Nat Turner | Started a slave rebellion in Virginia |
| Elias Howe | Inventor of the sewing machine |
| Dred Scott | Man who was the subject of a slavery case raised at the Supreme Court |
| 1865-1877 | Years of the Reconstruction |
| Clara Barton | Founder of the American Red Cross |
| Booker T. Washington | Wrote Up from Slavery |
| Sherman | Man who led the march to the sea |
| Johnson | Lincoln's 2nd vice president |
| President Hayes | President who removed federal troops from the South |
| John Wilkes Booth | Assassinated Lincoln |
| Copperbaggers | Nickname for Northern politicians who won in the South |
| Stonewall Jackson | Killed at Chancellorsville |
| Lincoln | Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Santa Anna | Mexican dictator who played a role in Texas's war for independence and in the Mexican War. |
| President Polk | Said, "54 40 or fight." |
| Adoniram Judson | Father of American Missions |
| Jefferson Davis | Previous senator of Mississippi who became the President of the Confederacy |
| Ashburton-Webster Treaty | Treaty that concerned the Canadian-American border |
| John C. Fremont | The Republican Party's first candidate |
| Buchanan | Won the election of 1856 |
| Stephen Douglas | Proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| 13th Amendment | Amendment that abolished slavery |
| Matthew Perry | Commodore who opened Japan to the Western world |
| Battle of Gettysburg | Battle that was the turning point of the war |
| 1440 | Year that Johann Gutenberg introduced the movable type printing press |
| 1517 | Year that the Reformation began when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, Germany |
| 1492 | Year that Columbus discovered America |
| 1588 | Year that the "Invincible Armada" failed |
| 1608 | Year that the first permanent French settlement in the New World is established at Quebec |
| 1607 | Year that the Jamestown settlers arrived in America |
| 1630 | Year that the colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Company arrived in Massachusetts |
| 1733 | Year that Georgia is founded |
| 1636 | Year that Harvard College is founded by the Puritans of Massachusetts |
| 1647 | Year that the Ole' Deluder Satan Act is passed by Massachusetts |
| April 19 1775 | Year that the war for independence begins |
| July 4, 1776 | Year that the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence |
| 1783 | Year that the Treaty of Paris ends the War of Independence |
| 1781-1789 | Years of the Critical Period |
| 1787 | Year that the Constitution is created |
| 1791 | Year that the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution |
| 1803 | Year of the Louisiana Purchase |
| 1814 | Year that the Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812 |
| 1819 | Year that Spain cedes all of Florida to the US after signing the Adams-Onis Treaty |
| 1823 | Year that Monroe pens the Monroe Doctrine, a statement of American foreign policy |
| 1820 | Year that Hiram Bingham and Asa Thurston led the first group of American missionaries to Hawaii |
| 1821 | Year the first public high school in America was founded in Boston |
| 1825 | Year that the Erie canal is completed and that the canel era begins |
| 1836 | Year of the Texan War for Independence |
| 1845 | Year that Texas is annexed |
| 1846 | Year that the US officially declares war on Mexico |
| 1853 | Year of the Gadsden Purchase |
| Oglethorpe | founded Georgia |
| Queen Elizabeth | Who was named after Virginia? |
| Roger Williams | Founded Rhode Island |
| New Amsterdam | Colony taken from the Dutch |
| Carolina | colony that attempted the Grand Model |
| Maryland | Founded by the Calverts |
| Lord Baltimore | Title of Calvert |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | Colony that Winthrop was associated with |
| Pennsylvania | Colony made up of many Quakers |
| Roanoke | the lost colony |
| Delaware | the Penn family's land with access to the Atlantic |
| New Jersey | Founded by Carteret and Berkeley |
| Connecticut | Founded by Connecticut |
| Plymouth | founded by the Scrooby congregation in 1620 |
| France | country with a profitable fur trade in North America in the early years |
| John Eliot | translated the Bible into the language of the Algonquin Indians |
| 1619 | Year that the House of Burgesses (first representative assembly in North America) is founded |
| Quebec | First French settlement in North America |
| Wycliffe | Morning Star of the Reformation |
| William Tyndale | Printed the first English Bible |
| Henry 8th | King who broke with the Roman church |
| Leif Erikson | Thought to be first European to land in America (near A.D. 1000) |
| 1816 | First protective tariff implemented at Madison's request |
| Andrew Jackson | Nicknamed Old Hickory |
| Asbury | Called from England to train circuit riding preachers |
| 36 30 | divided slave and free areas in the Louisiana Purchase |
| Maine | Joined the Union in 1820 with Missouri |
| Monroe | The first President of the Era of Good Feelings |
| Cherokee | suffered on the Trail of Tears |
| 14th Amendment | defined citizenship |
| Calhoun | ''The Union, next to our liberty most dear.'' |
| George III | King during the War of Independence |
| Revere, Prescott, Dawes | Rode to warn about British |
| Hessians | German mercenaries |
| Sarapuss | English ship the Bonhomme Richard sunk |
| Richard Henry Lee | Proposed declaring independence |
| Yorktown | Last major battle in the War for Independence |
| 1783 | Year of the Treaty of Paris |
| Nathaniel Greene | The "Fighting Quaker" |
| Francis Marion | "Swamp Fox" |
| Madison | Father of the US constitution |
| Calhoun | author of the Bonus Bill |
| Calhoun | Only vice president to resign |
| Whitman | Wrote Leaves of Grass |
| Aroostook War | A "war" fought by lumberjacks over the Canada/US border |
| John Quincy Adams | Secretary of State who pushed for the Monroe Doctrine |
| caucus | a secret meeting held for choosing candidates |
| Webster-Asburton Treaty | US/Canada border treaty |
| President | Appoints Supreme Court justices |
| 1828 | Year of the Tariff of Abomination |
| Vice President | President of the Senate |
| Tippecanoe and Tyler too | Whig 1840 slogo |
| Speaker of the House | Leader of the House of Representatives |
| 35 | min. age to be President |
| Taney | Used by Jackson to destroy the bank |
| Finney | America's best-known, large-scale evangelist |
| foreign missions | began with the Haystack Prayer Meeting |
| 1820 | Year President Monroe is elected for his 2nd term |
| Whig Party | Existed for the sole purpose of defeating Jackson |
| McCullen vs. Maryland | Case that upheld implied powers |
| 1832 | Year that Jackson was elected for a 2nd term |
| Harrison | President who served the shortest term |
| Van Buren | Jackson's 2nd vice president |
| Hawthorne | Wrote the Blithedale Romance |
| Dorothea Dix | Helped the mentally ill |
| Washington | Lead the American army during the War for independence |
| Washington | Captured the Hessians at Trenton |
| Bourgeon | Lost at the Battle of Saratoga |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | Battle where Wayne was victorious |
| Jackson | First President to use the spoils system on a national level |
| John Jay | 1st chief justice |
| Stephen Decatur | Tripolitan war hero |
| Webster | Wrote the blue-backed speller |
| USS Constitution | Nicknamed Old Ironsides |
| 1812-1814 | Years of the War of 1812 |
| 1815 | Year of the Battle of New Orleans |
| Garrison | Editor of the Liberator |
| Oberlin College | the first US college to admit women |
| Eli Whitney | invented the coton gin |
| Elias Howe | invented the sewing machine |
| Jefferson | 1st Secretary of STate |
| 15 million | Price of the Louisiana Purchase |
| John Marshall | established judicial review |
| Benedict Arnold | Wanted to surrender West Point to the British |
| Thomas Paine | Wrote Common Sense |
| Magellan | Portuguese man who was the first to circumnavigate the world |
| William Bradford | Wrote the 1st History Book in the US |
| Edward | Preached Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God |
| Phyllis Wheatley | 1st female published in North America |
| David Brainerd | Missionary to the Indians |
| - | Proclamation Line of 1763 |
| 1777 | Year of the Battle of Saratoga |
| Edmund Burke | Defended the US in Parliament |
| mercantilism | an economic theory that believe the colonies should benefit the mother country |
| Ethan Allen | Led the Green Mountain Boys |
| Lexington | location of the shot heard 'round the world |
| Columbus | First named the inhabitants of North America ''indians'' |
| Iroquois | - |
| Maya, Aztec, Inca | three strong Indian nations |
| Reconquista | only successful crusade |
| England, Portugal, France, Spain | 4 great countries in the 1600s |
| John Calvin | Man who greatly influenced colonists |
| St. Augustine | 1st Euro settlement in North America |
| Champlain | Father of New France |
| Alexander the 6th | Drew the Line of Demarcation |
| De soto | Discovered the Mississippi River |
| 1765 | Year of the Stamp Act Congress |
| Blackstone | Wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England |
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