Native American History
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
What is a stereotype?
A formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause.
What is a petition?
A ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way.
What is a despot?
What is a push factor?
An insurrection that takes place on a ship - sometimes, on a slave ship.
A document that acknowledges the land we live, work or go to school on was stolen from Native Americans.
What is a land acknowledgment?
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The system the U.S. uses for electing its president, using proportional representation based on the population of each state instead of the popular vote.
What is the electoral college?
This was a major push factor for Irish immigration to the U.S. in the 1840s.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
A law introduced by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, outlawing slavery in all Southern states that had seceded from the North.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A type of document written in the present that describes a moment in history, such as a textbook.
What is a secondary source?
An American colonist who supported the British during the American Revolution.
What is a loyalist?
How many senators does each state have?
What is Ellis Island?
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
An agreement or arrangement made by negotiation
What is a treaty?
An original document or object that was created at the time in history we are studying.
What is a primary source?
The name for the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in the 1790s.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This law was signed in 1882, restricting immigration for people from a specific country - the first time immigration laws had targeted a specific group or ethnicity.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
An enslaved person who has run away from their enslaver.
What is a fugitive?
The unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or society by members of another and typically more dominant people or society.
What is cultural appropriation?
A violent encounter between British soldiers and American colonists, where 5 Americans - including Crispus Attucks - were killed.
What was the Boston Massacre?
The process of removing a President from office, typically reserved only for "high crimes and misdemeanors"
What is impeachment?
The 19th-century belief that the United States was called by God to expand its territory across North America, justifying westward expansion and the displacement of Native Americans.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The word for the era of the pre-war American South.
What is "antebellum"?