Jefferson's Directions
What are longitude and latitude?
Jefferson was happy when Lewis found this person to help him lead the Corp of Discovery.
Who was William Clark?
This Supreme Court case ended with a decision that African Americans could not be citizens. This case was celebrated in the South while it caused fear in the North.
What was the case of Dred Scott?
This was the minimum amount of states needed to get any laws passed with the Articles of Confederation.
What is 9?
A formal binding agreement made between two or more nations.
What is a treaty?
Jefferson wanted Lewis and Clark to get information on the Native People, especially for this purpose
What is commerce or trade?
Jefferson asked Lewis to let him know if he sees this thing that explodes.
What is a volcano?
This was part of the Compromise of 1850, and caused angry Northerners to have to return enslaved people back to the slaveowners of the south.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What is a representative?
A law signed in 1830 that authorized the President to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Native American lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Jefferson wanted to know about soil and plants for this purpose
What Jefferson was trying to figure out when he asked for "the dates at which particular plants put forth or lose their flowers, or leaf, times of appearance of particular birds, insects and reptiles."
What are the seasons?
Convinced he was on a mission from God, this man planned a huge uprising of slaves that would be armed and then kill their owners. He was caught and executed. The North made him a hero, but the South despised him.
Who was John Brown?
John Jay wrote to Thomas Jefferson to say how bad things were with the Articles and that THIS might show it's ugly head again.
What is tyranny?
Aside from Cholera and Measles, the Native People also caught this disease.
What is Whooping Cough?
When Jefferson asked about " the mineral productions of every kind" he did not know that this would be found in 1849.
Who is gold?
Lewis and Clark were to be neighborly, friendly, and THIS to the Native Americans.
What is USEFUL
When Congress passed a popular sovereignty act, it allowed states to vote to be a slave or free state. THIS was the mini war that occurd as border ruffians crossed state lines violently, and voted.
What is Bloody Kansas?
Hamilton wrote that Spain won't let us use this.
What is the Mississippi River?
This type of force was used to remove the Native Americans from their homelands.
What is military?
This is what Jefferson wanted Lewis and Clark to find that reminds us of this this quest during the Age of Expooration.
What is the Northwest Passsage
Jefferson thought that THIS RIVER would go all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Missouri River?
People up north read this book and said OMG, they do this to slaves? Many northerners became abolitionists after they read it. The south, however, banned the book - they hated it.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The states would not give money to help pay back the country's loans. George Washington said that states will not act for the greater good unless they are this.
What is forced?
These are the five tribes that were removed and placed onto the Trail of Tears
Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee and Seminole.