Washington Takes Office
What is an inauguration?
An official ceremony to make someone President.
What is a pioneer?
Someone who settles a new place before others.
What did impressment mean?
That sailors were forced to work on British ships.
The actions a government takes in relation to other governments and nations.
Foreign policy
What is a famine?
A severe food shortage.
A group of people chosen by each state to vote for the President and Vice President.
Electoral College
What is a frontier?
The edge of settlement.
What is an anthem?
A song of praise.
What did the Monroe Doctrine warned European nations?
To stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What was the abolition movement?
The fight to abolish or end slavery.
What is a Cabinet?
A group of advisors.
What is the role of an interpreter?
Translate what people are saying into other languages.
What is the U.S. national anthem?
The right to vote.
What does it mean to reform a society?
To improve a society
A group of people who have the same beliefs about government.
What were the roles of Sacagawea and Charbonneau in the Lewis & Clark expedition?
They were guides and interpreters.
What does the word casualties mean?
People who were injured or killed.
Why was it called the Trail of Tears?
Because by the end of the journey, nearly one fourth of the American Indians had died.
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Taxes on imported goods.
Tariffs
Who is your favorite teacher?
Mrs. Ostos
To have pride in the nation.
Nationalism
A policy made by President James Monroe warning European nations to stay out of America.
Monroe Doctrine
Name two people that spoke out against slavery.
Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass