RED
This is freedom from being ruled by others.
Independence
A careful plan.
Strategy
A group of people responsible for making a country’s laws.
Congress
A plan of government.
Constitution
Another name for a law that begins with O.
Ordinance
Money that is owed
Debt
To give up and agree to stop fighting.
Surrender
Someone who represents a group of people.
Delegate
To approve
Ratify
Slavery is the act of owning people and forcing them to work without this.
Pay
Money that people pay to support the cost of government .
Tax
A union of states that agreed to cooperate.
Confederation
This act taxed printed products.
The Stamp Act
The proclamation of 1763 said that colonists could not move this direction past the Appalachian Mountains.
West
When the colonists feared they were losing their right to self-government, they wrote this document.
The Declaration of Independence
The Continental Army was led by this man.
George Washington
After this war, Great Britain forced new taxes on the American colonists.
The French and Indian War
In this year, American colonists declared their independence.
1776
This man lead the Americans to victory at fort Sackville in Indiana.
George Rogers Clark
This act doubled the size of the United States.
The Louisiana Purchase
Indiana became a state after its population was above this number.
60,000
This document set up the rule for creating states in the Northwest Territory and dividing them into townships.
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
This Native American refused to sign the a Treaty of Greenville and continued to fight against white settlement.
Tecumseh
This Native American did sign the Treaty of Greenville.
Little Turtle
This man convinced Congress to allow people to buy smaller plots of land to farm.
Governor William Henry Harrison