10th Grade U.S. History final exam

A Portugese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean

Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztecs

First European to reach the Pacific Ocean, 1513.

1st to circumnavigate the globe

A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.

1st permanent English settlement in North America

Religious freedom

A pilgrim that lived in a north colony called Plymouth Rock in 1620. He was chosen governor 30 times. He also conducted experiments of living in the wilderness and wrote about them; well known for "Of Plymouth Plantation."

Roger Williams

Thomas Hooker

Revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense (1776) arguing for American independence from Britain. In England he published The Rights of Man

American poet (born in Africa) who was the first recognized Black writer in America (1753-1784)

George Washington

General Burgoyne

Mad Anthony Wayne

General Cornwallis

George Washington

Wrote commentaries on the Laws of England

James Madison

John Jay

Alexander Hamilton

American naval hero of the War of 1812; "Our country, right or wrong!"

Jefferson

(1804-1806) Commissioned by Jefferson to map and explore the Louisiana Purchase region. Beginning at St. Louis, Missouri, the expedition travelled up the Missouri River to the Great Divide, and then down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. It produced extensive maps of the area and recorded many scientific discoveries, greatly facilitating later settlement of the region and travel to the Pacific coast.

1803 purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. Made by Jefferson, this doubled the size of the US.

1824- Adams son

Baptist pastor who worked to give America religious freedom

Andrew Jackson

Martin Van Buren

American naval commander who demanded Japan open up to trade again

Father of American Missions

1842 - Established Maine's northern border and the boundaries of the Great Lake states.

1849

American writer who wrote textbooks to help the advancement of education. He also wrote a dictionary which helped standardize the American language.

(AJ) , first college to teach women and African Americans

Along with Robert R Livingston, put the first steamboats into service in 1807.

Cotton Gin

Sewing machine

Laid 1st transatlantic cable

Steel plow

Telegraph

"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.

Stephan Douglas

American slave who sued his master for keeping him enslaved in a territory where slavery was banned under the missouri Compromise

1848 Martin Van Buren

slogan used in the 1844 presidential election as a call for us annexation of the Oregon territory. Polk

Santa Anna

Sam Houston

Fillmore 1850

James Buchanan

The Liberator

(Harriet Beecher) Stowe 1852

President of the Confederacy

Confederate General

Stonewall Jackson

Gettysburg

In God we trust

Lincoln

Union's best general

A Union general and friend of Grant that was given command of the push to the sea. One of the more competent Union generals, he secured the deep south by a total war policy.

On April 9, 1865, General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.

Andrew Johnson

Temporary name for Republican party in 1864

..., was an American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.

13. abolished slavery, 14. Declares that all persons born in the U.S. are citizens and are guaranteed equal protection of the laws, 15. citizens cannot be denied the right to vote because of race, color , or precious condition of servitude

Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An "angel" in the Civil War, she treated the wounded in the field.

1865-1877

1. amnesty to all but few southerners who took oath of loyalty 2. 10% percent of state voters (1860 elect.) taken oath could organize state gov. 3. members of conf. gov officers of army, former federal judges, members of congress could not receive amnesty

1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to needy blacks and helped them get jobs

Booker T. Washington

Booker T. Washington

Rutherford B. Hayes

..., Ended Reconstruction. Republicans promise 1) Remove military from South, 2) Appoint Democrat to cabinet (David Key postmaster general), 3) Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river

A northerner who went to the South immediately after the Civil War; especially one who tried to gain political advantage or other advantages from the disorganized situation in southern states;

A derogatory term for Southerners who were working with the North to buy up land from desperate Southerners