Week 10 Vocabulary

Vocabulary U3 W3

smallpox

resilience

President Andrew Jackson

commander

Cherokee

controversy

legacy

smallpox

• Noun

• Definition: A deadly contagious viral disease

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

resilience

• 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.

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.

commander

• Noun

• The Boss of the military

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

Cherokee

• 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.

controversy

• 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.

legacy

• 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.

Sources

• https://www.ianbrodie.com/controversy-marketing/

  https://robefish.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/the-countdown-has-begun/

• https://delanirbartlette.medium.com/andrew-jackson-americas-most-violent-president-1d232a199dec

• https://safety4sea.com/7-resilience-best-practices-to-improve-your-daily-life-or-routine/

• NIH website

• https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/arts/design/22diary.html

• The Atlantic Website

Multiple Choice

Which President was first to be born in a log cabin?

• Andrew Jackson

• Donald Trump

• Barack Obama

• George Washington

Multiple Choice

President Andrew Jackson's Legacy was

• in controversy

• in heaven

• in the past

• he had no legacy

Multiple Choice

Cherokee is

• a type of cereal

• a type of money

• an Indigenous Tribe

• a type of car

Multiple Choice

it is possible to die of smallpox

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

Army soldiers take orders from their

• neighbor

• grocery store clerk

• Cherokee

• commander

Multiple Choice

resilience means

• prettiness

• bossiness

• ability to argue with anyone anytime

• ability to recover quickly from difficulties

Multiple Choice

A good synonym for resilience is

• fragile

• breakable

• toughness

• dryness