United States History Review for Final Exam Name: ____________________
Great Society LBJ's Social programs
Sam Houston 1st Pres of Republic of Texas
Ferdinand Magellan 1st to circumnavigate the world
Jimmy Carter (Accords) President during Camp David Peace Awards
Father of the Constitution James Madison
Union General at Battle of Vicksburg U.S. Grant
AKA Compromise of 1820 Missouri Compromise
Blue-Backed Speller Noah Webster
Conquered Aztecs Hernando Cortez
1st 10 Amendments AKA Bill of Rights
Established Rhode Island Roger Williams
President during WWI Woodrow Wilson
Jamestown 1st Permanent English Settlement 1609
Revolutionary War turning point battle Battle of Saratoga
Wounded Knee last battle with Governor vs. Indians
Prosecutor at Scopes Trial William J. Bryan
Grenada President Reagan sent troops to free Communist Cubans
Amerigo Vespucci Explorer for whom America was named
Robert Weaver 1st black American cabinet officer
Apollo XI crew members Collins, Armstrong, Aldrin
GATT established World Trade Center organization
Manuel Noriega President of Panama, overthrown when Panama was invaded
Supreme Court legalized abortion Roe vs. Wade
Spokesman for detente Nixon H. Kissenger
1st women Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor
63 American hostages in? country Iran
VP for Republican Reagan George Bush
Great Communicator Ronald Reagan
History of Plymouth Plantation author W. Bradford
1st Secretary of Treasury Alex Hamilton
Stonewall Jackson died here Battle of Chancelorsville
Greatest inventor Edison
Book by Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind
Year House of Burgesses started 1619
Phillis Wheatley slave poet
Baseball player evangelist Billy Sunday
Colony was haven for Catholics Maryland
Top Confederate General Robert E. Lee
Famous sermon by Edwards Sinners in the hand of an angry God
Law in Northwest Territory Northwest Ordinance
Mercantilism good of the mother country
Good Neighbor Policy Foreign policy of FDR
Lost Generation a term coined by Gerbude Stein
Father of New France Samuel D. Champlain
Best known 2nd GA evangelist Charles Finney
Elias Howe invented the sewing machine
Compromise of 1950 last work of Henry Clay
Rockefeller leading businessman in oil
Louisiana Purchase greatest real estate deal in America
Mark Twain best local color author
Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical reaper
Watergate scandal involving President Nixon
President during War of 1812 James Madison
President for New Frontier JFK
President for 2 non-consecutive terms Grover Cleveland
Wrote Emancipation Proclamation Abe Lincoln
"Return to Normalcy" President Warren Harding
President sent troops to Haiti and Bosnia Clinton
"54 degrees 40' or fight" James K. Polk
President who stood against Communism Ronald Reagan
New Deal FDR
"Speak softly" Teddy Roosevelt
Only President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft
President at beginning of Depression Hoover
Fair Deal President Truman
Only unanimous President Washington
Persian Gulf War President George Bush
1588 Spanish Armada
1609 founding of Jamestown
1620 Pilgrims
1776 Declaration of Independence
1783 Treaty of Paris
1803 Louisiana Purchase
1848 End of Mexican War
1862 Homestead Act
1865 End of Civil War
1877 End of Reconstruction
1887 Interstate Commerce Act
1898 Spanish American War
1917 America enters WWI
1929 Black Tuesday
1945 VJ Day
1954 Mr. Cap B-day (May 18th)
1973 America pulls out of Vietnam
1991 Operation Desert Storm
1994 Newt Gingrich elected Speaker of the House