American Revolution
Who won the American Revolution?
Colonists/Americans
What vocabulary word means to approve?
ratify
Who is a person that moves from one country to another?
An immigrant
Who won the Civil War?
The Union / The North
What is money that people pay to support the cost of government?
Taxes
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
the Louisiana Territory was bought and it DOUBLED the size of the U.S.
What vocabulary word means to separate from?
Who was the leader of the Continental Army?
George Washington
Who bought the Louisiana Territory from the French in 1803?
Thomas Jefferson
Which Native American Group had to march in the trail of death?
Potowatomi
What were the two sides of the Civil War? Why were they fighting?
North (Union) wanted to outlaw slavery. The South (Confederates) wanted to keep slavery.
What caused Britain to increase the taxes the colonists had to pay?
Britain needed money to pay its debts after the French and Indian War.
What was one reason people wanted to move to Indiana?
1. There were crowded cities in the eastern states.
2. They were trying to escape war and poverty.
3. They wanted to move where land was plentiful?
What was the Financial Crisis in 1837?
Indiana was not able to pay its huge debt. People lost jobs, prices of crops dropped, and Indiana couldn't pay off a huge debt.
What was the secret network that helped enslaved people escape to free states and Canada?
Underground Railroad
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
It stated that no colonists could move west of the Appalachian Mountains
What was the Land Ordinance of 1785?
Set up the rule for creating states in the Northwest Territory and divided them into townships
Why was building railroads an improvement in transportation for Indiana?
the engines were powerful and they could move faster than barges. It was easier to lay tracks.
Managed homes and farms, social clubs, nurses, sewed clothing, and knitted socks.