Power & Government
A group of people who share ideas about how the government should work and try to gain power to put those ideas into action.
What is a Political Party
An agreement between groups or governments, often used by the U.S. government to take Native American land.
What is a treaty?
The first president of the United States who served two terms and voluntarily stepped down, setting an important precedent.
Who is George Washington?
Land set aside by the government where Native Americans were forced to live after removal.
What is a reservation?
Being forced to move to a new place.
What is forced relocation?
A group of close advisors who help the president make important decisions.
What is the Cabinet?
The process of forcing Native Americans to change their language, culture, and way of life.
What is assimilation?
A Shoshone woman who traveled with the Corps of Discovery and served as a guide and interpreter, helping the expedition succeed.
Who is Sacagawea?
Land bought by President Jefferson from France in 1803 for $15 million, which greatly expanded the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The forced journey Native American tribes were made to travel west, during which many people suffered and died.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The system used to elect the president, where voters choose electors who then vote for a candidate.
What is the Electoral College?
A document written in France in 1789 that declared all men free and equal and listed basic rights the government should protect.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
Leaders of the expedition sent to explore the Louisiana Territory and map the land west to the Pacific Ocean.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
The way Canada was divided into two regions so different cultures could govern more peacefully: One part with British laws and English culture and the other with French laws and French culture.
What are Upper and Lower Canada?
What are Upper and Lower Canada?
A group of Native nations that joined together to resist American settlement of their land.
What is the Western Confederacy?
A powerful revolutionary government group in France that tried and punished people accused of being enemies of the Revolution.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
A European idea that land could be claimed if it was considered “empty,” even if people already lived on and used it.
What is the Doctrine of Discovery?
The Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington who helped fix the nation’s finances, created a national bank, and supported a strong federal government.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
Land north of the Ohio River that the United States wanted to settle after the Revolutionary War.
What is the Northwest Territory?
An agreement in 1795 that forced Native nations to give up land and recognize the authority of the United States.
What is the Treaty of Greenville?
Laws passed during John Adams’s presidency that made immigration harder and limited what people could say or write against the federal government.
What are the Alien and Sedition Acts?
A law passed in 1830 that allowed the U.S. government to force Native American tribes off their land and move them west.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
The Secretary of State under Washington who became the third president of the United States and supported limited government and individual rights.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
A valuable region in the Pacific Northwest with rich farmland, fur resources, and rivers; claimed by multiple nations and home to many Native peoples.
What is the Oregon Country?
A major battle in 1791 where Native forces defeated the United States Army, the worst defeat in U.S. Army history.
What is the Battle of the Wabash?