Foreign Policy
What does Lewis call the people of the Yankton Sioux in his speech to them?
Children
How did indigenous nations legally fight to protect their rights?
Petitions and signing treaties.
A bill must first be approved by this part of government before it gets signed into law by the president.
Congress
Slavery was legal in what part of the United States?
The South
The first job women were able to hold.
Teacher
When ally France requested the U.S. support in a war against Great Britian how did they respond?
The U.S. remained neutral in the conflict
The word for this definition:
to intrude on the territory, or rights of someone else
Encroach
Name the 3 branches of government.
Legislative, Judicial, Executive
What was Henry Box Brown famous for?
Shipping himself north to escape slavery
This industry separated raw cotton and turns it into usable yarn
Cotton Mill
Name 3 of the 4 Declared Values of the U.S.
Liberty, Equality, Democracy, Pursuit of Happiness
Name 2 of the 3 Indigenous Nations we discussed.
Cherokee, Shawnee, Mashpee Wampanoag
A bill forcing indigenous nations to move west of the Mississippi River.
The Indian Removal Act
A network of safe houses and secret routes organized by abolitionists and used by enslaved Black people to escape from slavery
Underground Railroad
A person who has special skill or knowledge relating to a particular subject
Expert
In what nation was the only successful slave revolt?
Haiti
Indigenous nations fought to protect this. Meaning independence.
Sovereignty
The long journey indigenous people took to their new land in Oklahoma was called this.
The Trail of Tears
Slaves sang these to communicate hidden meanings.
Coded Spirituals
Steamboats transported this from the south to the northern U.S.
Cotton
How was the land Lewis and Clark explored acquired?
The Louisianna Purchase
What was Tecumseh trying to accomplish in his speech?
He wanted indigenous nations to band together against the white man.
This President passed the Indian Removal Act.
Andrew Jackson
a person who favors the complete removal of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery:
Abolitionist
The circulation of money throughout a country
Economy