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Lesson 1: American Revolution
Lesson 2: Building a Nation
Lesson 3: A New State
Lesson 4: Civil War & Indiana
Wild Card
100

The British government decided to pay its debts by charging new _______ in the colonies.

taxes

100

Define the word "congress."

a group of people responsible for making a country's laws.

100

Define the word "immigrant."

A person who moves from one country to another.

100

Describe how the country was divided during the Civil War.

North vs. South
(Union vs. Confederacy)

100
The year Indiana became a state.

1816

200

The King of England in 1763

King George III

200

Delegates from each state came to Philadelphia in 1787 to form a new plan of government.  What document did they write?

The U.S. Constitution

200

Indiana's first official state governor.

Jonathan Jennings

200

Describe what an abolitionist believes.

An abolitionist believes slavery is wrong.
200
The year the Civil War ended.

1865

300

He was the general of the Continental Army in the American Revolution.

George Washington

300

This was the measurement of a square-sized township according to the Land Ordinance of 1785.

6 square miles

300

This major road stretched from Maryland to Illinois and took 27 years to build.

The National Road

300

This is the name of the ruling Abraham Lincoln gave which stated all slaves would be free if the union won the war.

The Emancipation Proclamation

300

Name two things women did to help the Civil War effort.

Sewed clothes, grew food and animals on the farm for food, became nurses, made blankets.

400

He was sent to recruit soldiers and take back the forts on the western frontier.

George Rogers Clark

400

The number of citizens living in a territory in order for it to become an official state.

60,000

400
Describe how rivers were connected for better transportation in the 1700s.

Canals were dug for boats to travel from river to river.

400

The governor of Indiana during the Civil War.

Oliver P. Morton

400

The number of soldiers Indiana sent to fight in the Civil War.

12,000
500
Describe how George Rogers Clark and his 100 men got Henry Hamilton and his British soldiers to surrender Fort Sackville.

The men carried lots of flags behind a small hill far enough away that the British assumed a great army was going to overtake them.

500

This major battle was fought between General Anthony Wayne's soldiers and several Native American tribes in 1794.

The Battle of Fallen Timbers

500
This law forced Native Americans to move to reservations farther west.

The Indian Removal Act of 1830

500

This was the only Civil War battle fought in Indiana.

The Battle of Corydon

500

The famous Shawnee warrior leader who was well respected among Hoosiers.

Tecumseh