American Revolution
He led the Continental Army and was the 1st president of the United States.
Who was George Washington?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence and made the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
He was the 16th president. He ended slavery and kept the Union together.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Indiana became a state in this year.
What is 1816?
This doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Britain increased the taxes the colonists had to pay because of this.
What is they were in debt after the French and Indian War?
They helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad.
Who are the Coffins?
This helped fugitive (escaping) slaves from the South travel to free states.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This document resulted in an equal number of slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This group of people was the most harmed and displaced when many settlers came to Indiana.
What are Native Americans?
This stated that no colonists could move west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
He was the 1st governor of Indiana and organized delegates to write our state's constitution.
Who was Jonathan Jennings?
The North was different from the South because the North didn't allow this.
What is slavery?
Name 2 things women did to help with the war effort.
What are: rolled bandages, knit socks, made clothes, helped make ammunition, manned the arsenals?
Building these gave farmers a way to move their crops to market faster.
What are canals?
This document set up the rule for creating states in the Northwest Territory and dividing them into townships or a grid of squares.
What is the Land Ordinance of 1785?
He was the governor of Indiana at the start of the Civil War, he became a senator, and organized the Indiana Legion.
Who is Oliver Morton?
This document promised to free all the slaves once the Union took back the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This side had the advantage in the Civil War because most of the battles were fought in lands they were familiar with.
Who is the South?
This was built between 1811-1827 and improved transportation.
What is the National Road?
He led a surprise attack during the winter at Vincennes during the Revolutionary War.
He signed the Treaty of Greenville with the Native Americans and our city is named for him.
Who was Anthony Wayne?
Name 2 advantages the North had in fighting the Civil War.
What are larger population and more supplies?
Name the 3 capitals of Indiana.
What are Vincennes, Corydon, and Indianapolis?
This Native American group was forced to leave Indiana in a march called The Trail of Death.
Who are the Potawatomi?