TAKS FLASH CARDS

Instructions

• TAKS Lesson Objective 1– Copy the information from the powerpoint onto

index cards– Term goes on the front of the card (no lines) and

definition goes on the back of the card (lines)– If you do not have cards, you may write everything

on paper

1215

• The Magna Carta was signed– It limited the power of the king– Protected the rights of nobles

1607

• Jamestown was founded in North America

1776

• The Declaration of Independence was signed

1787

• The Constitutional Convention met

1803

• The Louisiana Purchase

1861-1865

• The American Civil War

1861

• Attack on Ft. Sumter started the Civil War

1862

• Emancipation Proclamation– Lincoln announced slaves would be free by the

end of the year

1863

• The Battle of Gettysburg and the Gettysburg Address

1865

• Confederates surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse to end the Civil War

George Washington

• Comander of the Continental Army• Led the Constitutional Convention• First President of the United States

Thomas Jefferson

• Author of the Declaration of Independence• 3rd President of the U.S.• Ambassador to France

Thomas Paine

• Wrote Common Sense– Essays regarding the need for the Revolutionary

War

King George III

• King of England during the American Revolution

Robert E. Lee

• Commander of the Confederate Army (South) during the Civli War

Ulysses S. Grant

• Commander of the Union Army (North) during the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

• Elected in 1862, he was the president of the United States during the Civil War

Nullification Crisis

• Challenged the right of states to void a federal law

Bill of Rights

• First 10 amendments to the Constitution• Guaranteed individual freedoms

Stamp Act

• Placed a tax on all printed materials

Proclamation of 1763

• Stated colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mountains

Boston Massacre

• British troops fired on a crowd of colonists• Contributing factor in the Revolutionary War

Lexington and Concord

• The Shot heard ‘round the world• The first shots of the American Revolution

were fired

Saratoga

• Turning point of the American Revolution• Convinced the French to help the Americans

Yorktown

• Final battle of the American Revolution– Cornwallis (British General) surrendered

Appomattox Courthouse

• Lee surrendered to Grant there to end the Civil War

MORE FLASH CARDS – World History

1492

• Columbus “discovered” the New World

1066

• The Battle of Hastings

1789

• The French Revolution

1914-1918

• World War I

1939-1945

• World War II

The Treaty of Tordesillas

• Divided the “New World” between Spain and Portugal

Monroe Doctrine

• Closed the Western Hemisphere to European colonization and kept Europe out of western affairs

The Neoloithic Revolution

• The shift from hunting and gathering to systematic agriculture

The Industrial Revolution

• Movement of the 1700s and early 1800s in which machines were used in factories to mass produce items

• It brought a shift from rural to urban living