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