1619-Three new things came to the new world: women, House of Burgesses, slaves
1588- Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1765- Stamp Act and the end of the French and Indian War
1849-California Gold Rush
1607-Founding of Jamestown
1854-Kansas-Nebraska Act
1848-Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo
1860-Start of the Civil War and Election of Abraham Lincoln
1865-End of the Civil War and the surrender of the
Confederates at Appomattox
1750-First tax in America "Iron Act"
Isaac Backus-leading Baptist minister in the long battle for
religious freedom
George Washington-commander and chief of the Continental army who
captured the Hessians at Trenton
Anthony Wayne-victor at the Battle of Fallen Timbers
Stephen Foster- wrote "Oh Susanna"
Hernando Cortez- conquered the Aztecs of Mexico
Burgoyne- English general who lost the Battle of Saratoga
Vasco da Gama- Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail
around Africa to India
James Madison- "Father of the Constitution"
"Jeb" Stuart- Confederate general who became the "eyes of the army"
Election of 1800- Thomas Jefferson won this election
Commodore Perry- opened the trade doors to Japan
Slogan "54 40 or Fight"- President Polk's campaign slogan
Santa Anna- Mexican dictator who was defeated at the
Battle of San Jacinto
Stephen Decatur- best-known hero of the Tripolian War
Lewis & Clark- explored the Louisiana Purchase for President Jefferson
Spoils System-awarding federal appointments to "friends". introduced
by Andrew Jackson
Democracy in America-written by Adam Smith
Battle of Yorktown-final battle of the Revolutionary War. Lost by
British general Cornwallis
Alexander Hamilton-established the first national bank of the
United States
Rhode Island-founded by Roger Williams as a haven for Baptists
"Favorite Sons" Election-Election of 1824 won by John Q. Adams
"Old Ironsides"-AKA U.S. S. Constitution War of 1812
Martin van Buren-Andrew Jackson second vice president
Missouri Compromise(1820)-temporaily settled the slave issue
Battle of New Orleans-1814
The Liberator-edited by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
Oberlin College-first to admit women
Harriet Beecher Stowe- wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
V.P. for Taylor in 1850- Millard Fillmore
Sam Houston - President of the "Lone Star Republic"-
1865-1877- Reconstruction era
Freedmen's Bureau-established to meet the needs of freed slaves
Up from Slavery-autobiography by Booker T. Washington
Rutherford B. Hayes-president that removed troops from the South
carpetbaggers - Northern politicians that went South in search
of political office
scalawags - Southerners that assisted the carpetbaggers
steel plow - invented by John Deere
1st transatlantic cable - laid by Cyrus Field
Elias Howe - invented a much improved sewing machine
cotton gin - invented by a handsome school teacher Eli Whitneycap
steamboat - invented by Robert Fulton
Americap Vespucci - the New World was named for this brave and
handsome Italian sailor
History of Plymouth Plantation - 1st American history book written
by William Bradford
Magellan - Portuguese sailor who led the first expedition to
circumnavigate the world
Jamestown, Quebec, St. Augustine - 1st permanent English, French
and Spanish settlements in the New World
religious freedom - this was the main reason the Englishmen founded the
colony of Plymouth
Tuskegee Institute - 1st school for African Americans founded
by Booker T. Washington
Stonewall Jackson - Confederate general killed at the Battle of
Chancellorsville
John C. Fremont - famous explorer of south west U.S., helped
California win their independence from Mexico,
1st Republican presidential candidate in 1856
(lost election)
Andrew Johnson - Lincoln's second vice-president, 1st to be impeached
President of the Confederacy - Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee - commander of the Confederate Army, signed treaty with
Grant @ Appomattox
American Red Cross - founded by Clara Barton
Dred Scott - Supreme Court slave decision ruling that a slave was the
"property" of the owner
Ulysses S. Grant - victorious Union General during Civil War, became
President after Andrew Johnson
General William T. Sherman - famous Union general - "march to the sea"
through Georgia using the 'scorched earth policy'
Stephen Douglas - Senator who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act,
debated Lincoln during the campaign of 1860
John Wilkes Booth - crazed actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg - this battle was the turning point of the war for the Union.
Lincoln gave the famous Gettysburg Address to commemorate a cemetery
Civil War Amendments - 13th freed slaves - 14th gave freedmen civil rights
15th granted freedmen the right to vote
James Buchanan - he won the Presidential election of 1856
Webster/ Ashburton Treaty- this treaty settled the Maine/Canada border dispute
Adoniram Judson - he is remembered as the "Father of American Missions"
Emancipation Proclamation - 1863 written by Lincoln, freed the slaves
"In God We Trust" - this was the phrase that Secretary of the Treasury
Salmon Chase had minted on U.S. coins
John Brown - crazed abolitionists who attacked a federal arsenal @
Harper's Ferry, Va Robert E. Lee was sent to capture Brown
Free Soil Party - former Vice President Martin Van Buren helped form this
party ( along with the van Buren gang)
Union Party - this was the name the Republican Party took in 1864
and elected Abraham Lincoln in 1864
Practice Test for U.S. History Semester exam.