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BMS-5thSS-Chapter11
Review of terms for Chapter 11 Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| made up of people chosen by each state who vote for President and Vice-President | electoral college |
| the ceremony in which a newly elected President swears loyalty to the Constitution and takes office | inauguration |
| the heads of the departments who advise the President and help him to govern | Cabinet |
| an organized group of people who share a view of what government should be and do | political party |
| ten square miles along the Potomac River which became the permanent site of the nation's capital | Washington, D.C. |
| an astronomer who helped survey the land where Washington, D.C. was built | Benjamin Banneker |
| designed the city of Washington, D.C. | Pierre L'Enfant |
| the first "first lady" to live in the White House | Abigail Adams |
| early settlers | pioneers |
| the edge of a settlement | frontier |
| an early pioneer who led many pioneers to the land west of the Appalachian Mountains | Daniel Boone |
| trail created by Daniel Boone which led from Virginia to Kentucky | Wilderness Road |
| a small valley that Native Americans had long used to cross the Appalachian Mountains | Cumberland Gap |
| waterway used as a trade route | Mississippi River |
| a Spanish-controlled port on the Mississippi River | New Orleans |
| was sent to France to buy New Orleans for the United States | James Monroe |
| added 828,000 square miles to the US doubling it in size | Louisiana Purchase |
| sent by Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Territory | Meriwether Lewis |
| chosen by Lewis to share command of the expedition into the Louisiana Territory | William Clark |
| a Shoshone who helped Lewis and Clark establish good relations with the Native Americans | Sacagawea |
| to not take sides | neutral |
| a Shawnee leader who was uniting Native Americans to resist pioneer settlement | Tecumseh |
| United States forces and Tecumseh's soldiers fought each other in what is now Indiana | Battle of Tippecanoe |
| a group in Congress who wanted war against Britain | War Hawks |
| a leader of the War Hawks who said that the US had to go to war or "you had better abandon the ocean" | Henry Clay |
| a war remembered for dramatic battles at sea | War of 1812 |
| commanded the United States fleet in a fierce battle on Lake Erie | Oliver Hazard Perry |
| wrote the poem which later was set to music and became known as "The Star-Spangled Banner" | Francis Scott Key |
| American general whose forces killed thousands of British in the Battle of New Orleans | Andrew Jackson |
| battle that was fought two weeks after a treaty had been signed in Europe | Battle of New Orleans |
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