Vocabulary
The act of owning and making people work without pay.
What is: slavery
What led the colonists to declare independence from Britian?
What is: The colonists felt they should have a in the laws and taxes that affected them.
What is each square in a territory called?
What is: township
Which groups played an important role in the building of canals and railroads?
What is: Irish and German immigrants
Which document resulted in an equal number of slave and free states in the United States?
What is: the Missouri Compromise
Money people pay to support the cost of the government.
What is: tax
Which battle was a turning point in the American Revolution because it convinced the French to support the colonists?
What is: Battle of Saratoga
Which Native American leader refused to sign the Treaty of Greenville and continued to fight aganist white settlement?
What is: Tecumseh
Which documents outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territory and Indiana?
What is: the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and the Constitution of 1816
What advantage did the South have in fighting the Civil War?
What is: most of the battles were fought in the South, so the Confederate soldiers were more familiar with the land
Land set aside for Native Americans.
What is: reservation
What law did King George III issue that drew an imaginary line along the Appalachian Mountains?
What is: Proclamation of 1763
Which document was used to govern the country before the U.S. Constitution was created?
What is: the Articles of Confederation
Which Native American group was forced to leave Indiana in the march called the Trail of Death?
What is: the Potawatomi
What was the purpose of the Underground Railroad?
What is: to help fugitive slaves from the South travel to free states
People trained as soilders but not in the military.
What is: militia
How long did the American Revolution last?
What is: six years
What did the Louisiana Purchase do to the United States?
What is: It doubled the size of the United States
Why did Indiana need new roads and railroads?
What is: Indiana's population grew
How did differing viewpoints lead to the Civil War?
What is: Eleven of the Southern states seceded from the Union and formed teh Confederate States of America
A law
What is: ordinance
What strategy did Georage Rogers Clark use to defeat Henry Hamilition?
What is: He told his men to wait behind a small hill and wave flags in both hands as they marched.
The delegates spent the summer of 1787 working out the details for what important document?
What is: The Constitution
What role did Jonathan Jennings play in Indiana statehood?
What is: he was the first mayor and helped make Indiana become a state
What is: Afraid that Southerners would try to cross the Ohio River and invade Indiana. They organized the militia group known as the Indiana Legion to handle emergencies at home.