Week 10 Vocabulary

Noun

Definition: A deadly contagious viral disease

Sentence: The soldiers contracted smallpox first, then coronavirus next.

Noun

Definition: The ability to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness

Sentence: The Cherokee resilience kept their culture alive, despite the harsh treatment from the late President Andrew Jackson.

Noun

A Controversial American President who was praised for being supportive to European American but harsh and cruel to Cherokee and other Indigenous Tribes.

The 7th U.S. president of 1829 who fought in the American Revolution War, was Andrew Jackson.

Noun

The Boss of the military

The Commander told the army to march the Cherokee people away from their ancestral lands.

Noun

An indigenous Tribe living in the Midwest and Southeast of North American long before Columbus and any other European Colonizers arrived.

Sentence: Cherokee people don't always dress in traditional clothing just like Somalians, Iranians, Ghanaians, people of Cote D'ivoire, Cruzans, Eritreans, Mexicans and many others.

Noun

Disagreement or dispute

Sentence: Andrew Jackson's legacy as a president is full of controversy because he was kind to new European Americans but unkind to indigenous Americans especially the Cherokee.

Noun

A part of a person who has lived on even after the person has passed?

It is clear that Muhammad (SAW) has a better legacy than President Andrew Jackson.