Taino
What famous explorer and mass-murder is given credit for getting lost and accidently being the first White European to lead ships to the Caribbean?
Christopher Columbus
What are the 3 branches of government?
Executive, Legislative, Judicial
To give a job to somebody such as the president offering a judge job to someone?
Appoint
To help black people escape slavery.
Was Frederick Douglass born free or enslaved?
Enslaved
Name two countries in the Caribbean
Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, The Bahamas, The US and British Virgin Islands, ...
Which branch executes and enforces the laws?
A person who is running away or trying to escape to avoid being caught, especially from the police or law.
fugitive
Which part of the country wanted the Fugitive Slave Act?
The South because they wanted slavery to contiue.
How did Frederick Douglass escape to NY?
What country today has many people that have links to the Taino people and culture?
Which branch writes laws?
Legislative
A war between two parts/groups of a single country.
Civil War
The question of slavery was key as the US expanded west. What does it mean for a country to expand?
Grow, get bigger
FD's 4th of July speech teaches us history because it is was written by an important person from that time period. What is the name for an original source?
Primary Source
What is the word to describe the first people to live in a land?
Indigenous
How can the president check the power of congress?
Veto a bill
To officially end or completely get rid of something, such as a law or system.
Abolish
What is the word for a person who wanted to completely end the system of slavery in the US?
Abolitionist
What was it illegal to teach enslaved people how to do because whites feared they would become too smart and dangerous?
Reading
What is the name for the carvings that indigenous Tainos made into rocks and caves?
Petroglyphs
How can congress check the power of the president?
Override a veto, reject an appointment
Before a law becomes a law by being approved by congress and the president, the document is called a...
bill
Why was the Fugitive Slave Act unfair in how it paid judges to decide if a person is sent South?
It paid 5 to stay, and 10 to return.
How did Frederick Douglass learn how to read?
The wife of one of his enslaver's, then self taught