Vocabulary
American Revolution
Building Nation
A New State
Civil War
100

The act of owning and making people work without pay.

What is: slavery

100

What led the colonists to declare independence from Britian?

What is: The colonists felt they should have a in the laws and taxes that affected them.

100

What is each square in a territory called?

What is: township

100

Which groups played an important role in the building of canals and railroads?

What is: Irish and German immigrants

100

Which document resulted in an equal number of slave and free states in the United States?

What is: the Missouri Compromise

200

Money people pay to support the cost of the government.

What is: tax

200

Which battle was a turning point in the American Revolution because it convinced the French to support the colonists?

What is: Battle of Saratoga

200

Which Native American leader refused to sign the Treaty of Greenville and continued to fight aganist white settlement?

What is: Tecumseh

200

Which documents outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territory and Indiana?

What is: the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and the Constitution of 1816

200

What advantage did the South have in fighting the Civil War?

What is: most of the battles were fought in the South, so the Confederate soldiers were more familiar with the land

300

Land set aside for Native Americans.

What is: reservation

300

What law did King George III issue that drew an imaginary line along the Appalachian Mountains?

What is: Proclamation of 1763

300

Which document was used to govern the country before the U.S. Constitution was created?

What is: the Articles of Confederation

300

Which Native American group was forced to leave Indiana in the march called the Trail of Death?

What is: the Potawatomi

300

What was the purpose of the Underground Railroad?

What is: to help fugitive slaves from the South travel to free states

400

People trained as soilders but not in the military. 

What is: militia

400

How long did the American Revolution last?

What is: six years

400

What did the Louisiana Purchase do to the United States?

What is: It doubled the size of the United States

400

Why did Indiana need new roads and railroads?

What is: Indiana's population grew

400

How did differing viewpoints lead to the Civil War?

What is: Eleven of the Southern states seceded from the Union and formed teh Confederate States of America

500

A law

What is: ordinance

500

What strategy did Georage Rogers Clark use to defeat Henry Hamilition?

What is: He told his men to wait behind a small hill and wave flags in both hands as they marched.

500

The delegates spent the summer of 1787 working out the details for what important document? 

What is: The Constitution

500

What role did Jonathan Jennings play in Indiana statehood?

What is: he was the first mayor and helped make Indiana become a state

500
Why did Governor Oliver P. Morton organize the Indiana Legion?

What is: Afraid that Southerners would try to cross the Ohio River and invade Indiana. They organized the militia group known as the Indiana Legion to handle emergencies at home.