Apush Quarter 3 test

In what year did Columbus land in the New World

1492

What colony is known as "The Lost Colony"

Roanoke

What was the first successful English colony

Jamestown

The friendship between what Indian Princess and English captain made this colony successful

Pocahontas and John Smith

What was the same of the colony established by the Separatists/Pilgrims for religious freedom

Plymouth

What ship brough the Separatists/Pilgrims to the New World

Mayflower

What group organized the boycotts to protest British Taxes

Sons of Liberty

What was the colonists' slogan protesting the Stamp Act

No taxation without representation

What was Patrick Henry's famous line in his speech to the Virginia Convention

Give me liberty or give me death

where were the opening shots of the American Revolution fired

Lexington and Concord

Who famously rode through the countryside sounding the alarm that the regulars were coming

Paul Revere

on what date was the declaration of independence adopted? Who was the primary author

July 4, 1776, and Thomas Jefferson

What was the famous line of the Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

What are the first ten amendments to the US constitution called

Bill of Rights

Who led the exploration of the Louisiana purchase?

Lewis and Clark

Who was the Native American Women who helped guide them

Sacagawea

Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner

Francis Scott Key

What was the name for the forced march of the Cherokee to reservations in Oklahoma

Trail of Tears

Who invented the Cotton Gen

Eli Whitney

What was the goal of the abolitionist movement

end slavery

What former slave became a famous abolitionist, even writing an autobiography of his life

Frederick Douglass

Where was the first women's rights convention

Seneca Falls, New York

Who was the most famous women's rights leader

Susan B. Anthony

What was the most famous battle of the Texas war for Independence

Alamo

Who led the Mormons to Utah

Brigham Young

What were the Mormons famous (and scorned) for practicing

Polygamy

In what year was the California Gold Rush

1849

Where were the opening shots of the Civil War fired

Fort Sumter

What battle was the turning point of the Civil War, causing the confederate troops to retreat from Pennsylvania

Gettysburg

Who was the commander of the Union Army at the end of the Civil War

Ulysses S. Grant

Who was the commander of the confederate Army

Robert E. Lee

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth

What amendment freed the slaves

13th

What amendment defined citizenship as being born in the US

14th

What even was the last great victory for the Native Americans? What nickname was this battle given

Battle of Little Bighorn, Custer's last stand

What was the entry point for immigrants coming from Europe

Ellis Island

What was the first mass produced car

Model T

Who developed the first successful motorized airplane? Where did the first successful flight take place

Wright Brothers, Kitty Hawk North Carolina

What was the nickname for the laws that enforced segregation

Jim Crow Laws

what was the nicknames for the battleships teddy roosevelt sent on a goodwill cruise around the world

Great White Fleet

What was wilsons idealistic case for war in ww1

Make the world safe for democracy

what was the area between trenches in ww1

No mans land

What was the nicknames for the US soldiers in WW1

Doughboys

On what date and time did the armistice of ww1 go into affect

Nov. 11, 1918, 11 am

What was the name of Wilson's plan for peace following ww1

Fourteen points

What ammendment prohibited the making, selling, and transporting of alcohol

18

what was the nickname for people who sold alcohol in the 1920s

bootleggers

what was the nicknames for the illegal bars in the 1920s

speakeasies

Who was the first women to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean

Ameilia Earhart

What was the nickname for the rebellious women of the 1920s

Flappers

What word refers to the right to vote

suffrage

What ammendement granted women the right to vote

19

What date did the stock market crash? What nickname was given to that day

Tuesday Oct. 29, 1929, Black Tuesday

What was the nicknames given to the series of drought and wind storms that swept the Great Plains in the 1930s

Dust Bowl

What nickname was given to the homeless villages during the great depression

Hoovervilles

What nickname was given to FDR's radio broadcasts

Fireside Chats

What was the name of FDR's plan to end the Great Depression

New Deal

what event brought the US in WW1? On what date did that event occur

Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941

What nations made up the axis powers in WW2

Germany, Italy, Japan

What nickname was given to the women who worked in factories during ww2

Rosie the Riveter

Who was appointed Supreme Allied Commanderin WW2

Dwight D. Eisenhower

What area of Northern France was invaded on D-day? On what date did D-day take place

Normandy 6/6/1944

The US Dropped atomic bombs on what two cities

Hiroshima and Nagasaki