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14 Cards in this Set
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African American appointed by the President to help lay out Washington, D.C.
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Benjamin Banneker
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Native American who developed the first written alphabet for the Cherokee
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Sequoyah
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The third president of the U.S., he also made the Louisiana Purchase
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Thomas Jefferson
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The territory explored by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
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Louisiana Territory
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The journey that the Native Americans made in which they were forced into Indian Territory
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Trail of Tears
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This president differed from all of the presidents before him in that he was not born wealthy
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Andrew Jackson
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This is the reason settlers were moving west of the Appalachian Mountains
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cheap farmland
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Reason President Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase
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in order to keep the port of New Orleans
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This man tried to stop the U.S. government from taking Cherokee lands by going to the Supreme Court
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John Ross
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This Native American led his forces against the Americans in the War of 1812
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Tecumseh
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One of the causes of the War of 1812
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The British were kidnapping American sailors and forcing them to serve on British ships (impressment)
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Another name for the War of 1812
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America's second fight for independence
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How did the Native Americans feel about the Indian Removal Act? Why?
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They were against it because it took away their native lands and they were forced to move.
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How did the settlers/farmers of the southeast feel about the Indian Removal Act? Why?
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They were for the act because it allowed them to aquire cheap farmland.
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