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5th Rogers
The Young United States
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| made up of people from each state who vote for the President and Vice-President - created when people lived far apart and did not know about the candidates | electoral college |
| ceremony in which the newly elected President swears loyalty to the Constitution | inaguration |
| Washington designed a way to divide the work of the Executive Branch into different departments. | Cabinet |
| An organized group of people who share a view of what government should be and do. | political party |
| A French artist and engineer who had come to fight in the American Revolution and was asked to design the capitol city in Washington, D.C. | Pierre L'Enfant |
| A freed slave who was an astronomer, inventor and mathematician and helped with the design of the capitol city. | Benjamin Banneker |
| The first "first lady" to live in the newly constructed White House. | Abigail Adams |
| President that wanted to give government back to the people. | Thomas Jefferson |
| Early settlers who settled in the frontier. | Pioneers |
| The most western edge of settlement by the pioneers. | Frontier |
| The pioneer who created the Wilderness Road. | Daniel Boone |
| A road built by Daniel Boone to help pioneers travel across the Appalachian Mountains and into the frontier from Virginia to Kentuky. | Wilderness Road |
| A small valley that Native Americans had long used to cross the Appalachian Mountains. | Cumberland Gap |
| A water trade route to ship products such as wheat and pigs south to the port at New Orleans. | Mississippi River |
| The port at the end of the Mississippi River owned first by the Spanish, later by the French and finally by the Americans. | New Orleans |
| The American statesman who negotiated with Napoleon to purchase the New Orleans port. | James Madison |
| The purchase of land west of the Mississippi and the port at New Orleans that doubled the size of the United States. | Louisiana Purchase |
| All of the land acquired during the Louisiana Purchase. | Louisiana Territory |
| Army Captain who led an expedition to find a Northwest Passage and to learn more about the land in the Louisiana Territory. | Meriwether Lewis |
| Army Captain who kept a detailed journal of the plants and animals that lived in the Louisiana Territory. | William Clark |
| The beginning of the journey of the Corp of Discovery. | St. Louis, Missouri near the Missouri River |
| Clark's slave and childhood friend | York |
| French Canadian fur trapper's Shoshone wife | Sacagawea |
| map that shows the distribution of populations | Population map |
| A map that shows how something like population or resources are distributed | Distribution map |
| Not taking sides | neutral |
| Shawnee leader who resisted pioneer settlements and was supported by the British | Tecumseh |
| Battle fought by Tecumseh's soldiers and United States forces in what is now Indiana | Battle of Tippecanoe |
| President in 1809 who asked the U.S. Congress to declare war on Britain. | James Madison |
| A group in Congress that protested British attacks on American shipping and pressed for war. | War Hawks |
| A War Hawk leader | Henry Clay |
| The war that was hoped to end British supported attacks of settlers in the Northwest frontier and to drive the British out of Canada. | War of 1812 |
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