Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism Flashcards

1
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What was the strategy of attacking Canada?

A

3 prong, didn’t attack the center (Montreal)

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Oliver Hazard Perry

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(olive-erie) built an american fleet on lake erie, captured a brit fleet

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3
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Why did America now have to protect themselves?

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Napoleon was out of power

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4
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Who saved upper NY from the Brit attack?

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Thomas Macdonough (that done though)

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5
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What was the FIRST british blow?

A

New York

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6
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What was the SECOND british blow?

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Washington

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7
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What was “the Bladensburg Races”?

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the brits set fire to public buildings in the capital

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8
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Who wrote the star spangled banner and during what event?

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Francis Scott Key at baltimore while brits fire at fort mchenry

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9
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What was the THIRD british blow?

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New Orleans

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10
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What was the problem with the third british blow?

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frontal assault

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11
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Who was made a national hero because of the attack at New Orleans?

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Andrew Jackson

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12
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How did the British retaliate from the defeat on New Orleans?

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Royal Navy blockaded + raiding parties -> american economy crippled: customs revs choked off, treasury not able to fulfill its obligations

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13
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Who proposed for the British to mediate with the Americans?

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Alexander 1 of russia

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14
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What had the Brits wanted in the treaty of ghent?

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indian buffer state, control of great lakes, maine

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15
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Why was london willing to compromise with america?

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Brit reverses in NY and baltimore, increasing war weariness

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16
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What was in the treaty of Ghent?

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agreed for brits and americans to stop fighting and restore conquered territory

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17
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What was not included in the treaty of ghent?

A

american grievances

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18
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Who benefitted during the war because of illicit trade with canada?

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new england

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19
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What happened at the Hartford Convention and what states participated?

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NE states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island

discussed grievances and sought redress for them

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20
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What was demanded by the Hartford Convention?

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financial assistance from Washington and constitutional amendments

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21
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What were the consequences of the war of 1812?

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new respect for america, american emissaries treated with less scorn

22
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What was the biggest casualty of the war?

A

the federalist party

23
Q

Who were the war heroes?

A

Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison: helped to obtain land north of Ohio River

24
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What was the Rush-Bagot agreement?

A

limited naval armament on the great lakes, caused by canadians feeling betrayed by treaty of ghent

25
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What did Washington Irving and James fenimore Cooper have in common?

A

nation’s first writers of importance to use american scenes and themes

26
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What was the cause, purpose, and action of the tariff of 1816?

A

cause: protection from the low prices of british goods
purpose: for protection, not revenue
action: 25% on dutiable imports

27
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What were the 3 main parts of the american system?

A

strong banking system, protective tariff, roads and canals

28
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Who came up with the american system?

A

Henry Clay

29
Q

The era of good feelings was under who’s presidency? why is it inaccurate?

A

James Monroe, b/c issues of tariff, bank, internal improvements, sale of public lands, sectionalism, slavery

30
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What was the panic of 1819?

A

deflation, depression, bankruptcies, bank fails, unemployment

31
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What caused the panic of 1819?

A

overspeculation in frontier lands

32
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What was the effect of the panic of 1819?

A

remedial legislation b/c attention to the inhumanity of debtor’s prisons

33
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What caused people to move into the frontier?

A

cheap land, land exhaustion

34
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What facilitated going west?

A

indians defeated by harrison and jackson, building of highways, steamboat

35
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What did pioneers demand?

A

cheap land, cheap money, cheap transportation

36
Q

What was in the Land Act of 1820?

A

authorized a buyer to buy 80 virgin acres at a minimum of $1.25 an acre in cash

37
Q

What state wanted to be admitted to the union as a slave state?

A

Missouri

38
Q

What was claimed in the Tallmadge Amendment?

A

no more slaves to Missouri, gradual emancipation of children

39
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Missouri Compromise

A

Missouri= slave state, Maine= separate state, slaves prohibited in the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36,30

40
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McCulloch v. Maryland

A

Maryland wanted to tax bank -> loose constitution

41
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Cohens v. Virginia

A

cohens illegally sold lottery tickets -> right of supreme court to review cases involving federal government

42
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Gibbons v. Ogden

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“steamboat case”, NY wants monopoly over waterborne commerce -> congress alone has right to control intersate commerce

43
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What group of people made up the first wave into the old northwest and why?

A

white farmers, escape low social status

44
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What was the second group of people that went to the old northwest and why?

A

yankees from northeast, land starved

45
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Fletcher v. Peck

A

georgia leg. granted 85 million acres to private speculators -> property rights against popular pressures

46
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Dartmouth College v. Woodard

A

charter -> enabled chartered corporations

47
Q

What was in the treaty of 1818?

A

Americans share newfoundland fisheries with canadians, northern limit of Louisiana on 49th parallel, ten yr joint occupation of oregon country

48
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What was in the Florida purchase treaty of 1819 and what was its cause?

A

Andrew Jackson seized St. Marks and Pensacola, spain ceded florida + claims to oregon in exchange for america’s abandonment of texas claims

49
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What did the Monroe Doctrine warn against?

A

noncolonization, nonintervention

50
Q

What was in the russo-american treaty of 1824?

A

fixed the southernmost Russian limits at the 54,40 line