The territory's new capital, where delegates gathered to write the state's Constitution.
What is Corydon?
100
The state capital since 1813.
What is Corydon?
200
A person chosen to speak for a group.
What is a delegate.
200
William Henry Harrison
Who is the first governor of the Indiana Territory?
200
It protected freedom of speech, religion, and the press.
What is the constitution?
200
The region that the leaders thought the new capital should be located.
What is central Indiana?
200
Thousands of Cherokee and neighboring tribes were forced to walk hundreds of miles to land in Oklahoma. Many people died of exhaustion, hunger, illness, and "broken hearts."
What is the Trail of Tears?
300
When the United States declared war on Great Britain because they were fighting over land and waterways in what is now Canada.
What is the War of 1812.
300
These people believed the Prophet's magic would protect them from enemy bullets.
Who are Native American warriors?
300
It made slavery illegal in the Northwest territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
300
The new capital name.
What is Indianapolis?
300
Native Americans were given land in this state during the Indian Removal Act.
What is Oklahoma?
400
a law passed by Congress that forced most Native Americans to move to lands west of the Mississippi River in 1829.
What is the Indian Removal Act.
400
The first state governor of Indiana.
Who is Jonathan Jennings?
400
The three parts of the Constitution.
What is the General Assembly, the state governor, and the state supreme court.
400
The 19th state to join the U.S.
What is Indiana?
400
Native Americans gave up their fight when he was killed during the Battle of the Thames.
Who is Tecumseh?
500
A battle that occurred on November 7, 1811 between the U.S. and Native Americans.
What is the Battle of Tippecanoe.
500
Tenskwatawa
Who is Tecumseh's brother?
500
This president signed a law that made Indiana a state on December 11, 1816.
Who is James Madison?
500
December 10, 1825.
When did Indianapolis become the new state capital?
500
A Cherokee Indian who created the first written Native American alphabet.