Vocabulary
Land that belongs to a nation, but is not a state and is not represented in the national government.
What is territory?
The number of people it would take for an area to become a state.
What is 60,000?
The slave woman who sued to be free.
Who was Elizabeth Freeman?
Daily Double:
The river that formed the western boundary of the Northwest Territory.
What is the Mississippi River?
The easy name for Michikinikwa. Page 296
What is Little Turtle?
To end, in this lesson, to end slavery.
What is abolish?
The freedom that settlers were promised in the territory. Page 295
What is freedom of religion?
The state that abolished slavery because of Elizabeth Freeman. Page 293
What is Massachusetts?
The Southern boundary of the Northwest Territory. Page 295
What is the Ohio River?
The treaty in which the Miami Tribe gave most of its land to the U.S. Page 296
What is the Treaty of Greenville?
Daily Double:
A set of laws.
What is ordinance?
Daily Double:
The number of squares inside each 6 mile township.
What is 36 squares?
The group of people that formed the first abolitionist group in the country. Page 293
Who are the Quakers?
What the U.S. government paid soldiers that fought in the war with.
What is land?
The major battle in 1794 that the U.S. beat the Native Americans.
An antislavery group or person.
What is abolitionist?
It was NOT allowed in the Northwest Territory.
What is slavery?
Elizabeth Freeman's real name.
What is Mum Bett?
This forms the eastern boundary of the Northwest Territory.
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
The first and last letter in Red Jacket's real name. Page 296
What is 's' and 'a'?
The reason Elizabeth Freeman sued to be free.
What is she heard in the Declaration that all people are equal?
5 of the 6 future states that the Northwest Territory would eventually become.
What is Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota?
The treaty in which the Holland land company bought most of the Seneca Tribe's land. Page 296
What is the Big Tree Treaty?