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US History T 3
Abeka US History Test 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1492 | Columbus discovered America |
| 1497 | John Cabot explored the North American coast |
| 1517 | beginning of the Protestant Reformation |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada defeated |
| 1607 | Jamestown founded |
| 1619 | House of Burgesses established |
| 1620 | Plymouth founded |
| 1733 | Savannah founded |
| 1774 | First Continental Congress |
| 1765 | Stamp Act Congress |
| 1775 | Lexington and Concord |
| 1783 | Treaty or Paris signed |
| Aaron Burr | former Vice President that became involved in a conspiracy to create his own empire in the American Southwest |
| Alexander Hamilton | the first secretary of the treasury; helped establish the national bank; followers were called Federalists |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | French thinker that wrote "Democracy in America" |
| Anthony Wayne | courageous general who defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers |
| Battle of New Orleans | battle that was fought after the War of 1812 was officially over |
| Battle of Saratoga | turning point for the War for Independence |
| Bill of Rights | composed of 10 Amendments |
| Constitution of the United States | the supreme law of the land |
| Daniel Shays | the farmer who led a rebellion in Massachusetts |
| Edmond Genet | tried to gain support for the French during the French Revolution |
| Edmund Randolph | the first attorney general |
| Embargo Act | piece of American legislation virtually cut off all trade with Europe |
| Enumerated | term for the powers given to the federal government |
| Francis Marion | known as the "Swamp Fox" |
| General Cornwallis | British general that surrendered to General Washington at Yorktown |
| Great Compromise | established that the national government would have two houses |
| Harvard | school of higher learning that was the first to be established in British North America |
| Henry Knox | first secretary of war |
| Hernando Cortes | conquered the Aztecs |
| Hernando de Soto | discovered the Mississippi River |
| Isaac Backus | a leading Baptist minister |
| James Madison | "Father of the Constitution"; helped Jefferson write the Kentucky and Virginia Resolution |
| James Oglethorpe | founded Georgia |
| James Otis | a colonial lawyer who spoke out against the Sugar Act |
| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement in the New World |
| John Dickinson | Pennsylvania statesman who helped author several famous documents |
| John Eliot | translated the Bible into the language of the Algonquin Indians |
| John Jay | first chief justice of the Supreme Court |
| John Locke | an English philosopher |
| John Marshall | chief justice who established judicial review |
| John Paul Jones | native of Scotland that said, "I have not yet begun to fight" |
| John Peter Zenger | his trial established freedom of the press in the colonial period |
| John Rolfe | introduced the raising and curing of tobacco at Jamestown |
| Jonathan Edwards | a Great Awakening preacher |
| Legislative branch | duty is to pass laws |
| Lewis and Clark | two men who explored Louisiana between 1804 and 1806 |
| Lord Baltimore | founded Maryland |
| Louisiana Purchase | $15 million |
| Marbury vs. Madison | Supreme Court decision that involved last-minute judicial appointments |
| Mary Ludwig | earned the name "Molly Pitcher" at the Battle of Monmouth |
| Mercantilism | theory that the colony existed only for the benefit of the mother country |
| Nathanael Greene | General that was known as the "Fighting Quaker" |
| Plymouth | New England settlement that used the Mayflower Compact as its basis for self-government / the settlement that became the model for the future settlement and growth of America |
| Ponce de Leon | made the first Spanish landing on the mainland of North America |
| Quartering Act | forced the American colonists to house British soldiers |
| Rhode Island | the last state to ratify the Constitution |
| Richard Henry Lee | proposed the resolution for Independence |
| Roger Williams | founded Rhode Island |
| Samuel Osgood | first postmaster general |
| Stephen Decatur | best-known hero of the Tripolitan War |
| Thomas Hooker | founded Connecticut |
| Thomas Jefferson | elected President in 1800; appointed by Washington to be the first secretary of state; followers were known as Democratic Republicans |
| Treaty of Ghent | treaty that ended the War of 1812 |
| Vasco da Gama | sailed around Africa to India |
| William Henry Harrison | won the battle of Tippecanoe |
| Yorktown | final battle of the War for Independence |
| Zebulon Pike | was arrested by the Spanish while exploring southwest Louisiana |
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