VOCABULARY
VOCABULARY
NORTHWEST TERRIRORY
WARRIORS and SETTLERS
POTPOURRI
100

A surprise attack

What is an ambush?

100

A group that is united for a common purpose.

What is a confederacy?

100

The laws of the territory were called this?

What is Maxwell's code?

100
After the American Revolution, Native Americans attacked the settlers for this reason.
What is...

1. Changing the land

2. Settlers were moving in to Ohio country

3. Native Americans realized their way of life was going to change

100

Before the Battle of Tippecanoe, this leader told his brother not to attack the Americans

Who is Tecumseh?

200
To say no to a law

What is a veto?

200

A group of people that share similar ideas about government.

What is a political party?

200

The first capital of the Northwest Territory. 

What is Chillicothe?

200

This group refused to let the Native Americans into Fort Miami. 

Who are the British?

200

One of the Native American leaders who formed a confederacy with other tribes.

Who is Little Turtle or Tecumseh?

300
The center of government for a territory, state, or country.

What is a capital?

300

An area of land protected or kept for a certain purpose

What is a reservation?

300

The first governor of the Northwest Territory.

Who is Arthur St. Clair?

300

The Treaty of Greenville gave the Native Americans this.

What is very little land?

300
He signed the Enabling Act to allow Ohio to take steps to become a state.

Who is President Thomas Jefferson?

400

The practice of owning a person and forcing them to work.

What is slavery?

400

A meeting for the purpose of writing a constitution

What is a constitutional convention?

400

These people could vote in the Northwest Territory

Who are white men who owned land?

400

Chief Tecumseh believed this about war with the Americans

What is :going to war was the only way to stop the Americans from taking more land?

400

They won the Battle of Fallen Timbers

Who was the American Army?

500

A count of the population

What is census? 

500

A plan for government

What is a constitution?

500

One of the groups who could not vote in the Northwest Territory.

Who are Native Americans, women, and former slaves?

500

The leaders at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, Native American and American Army.

Who are Blue Jacket and Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne?

500

This forced most Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River after the War of 1812.

Indian Removal Act