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Question 0

Where was the American victory that chased the British off of the great lakes?

Answer 0

Lake Erie

Question 1

What was the most famous US ship of the war of 1812?

Answer 1

The USS constitution

Question 2

What country did the Americans try to invade?

Answer 2

Canada

Question 3

What American fort was captured by the British in 1812?

Answer 3

Detroit

Question 4

Who said “We have met the enemy and they are ours.”?

Answer 4

Oliver Perry

Question 5

How many of the ship on ship battles did the Americans win?

Answer 5

13 out of 16

Question 6

What did the British use to stop all America’s trade and tariff money?

Answer 6

Blockade

Question 7

Who was the American battle of the Thames River?

Answer 7

William Henry Harrison

Question 8

Who were the Americans moved to Canada during the revolution?

Answer 8

Tories

Question 9

What should Congress have raised to prepare for war?

Answer 9

Taxes

Question 10

What were the two important navy battles of the war of 1812?

Answer 10

Lake Erie and Plattsburgh Bay

Question 11

What city was burned by the British?

Answer 11

Washington DC

Question 12

Who successfully defended Lake Champlain?

Answer 12

Thomas McDonough

Question 13

Where where the 2 battles in Canada in 1814?

Answer 13

Chippewa and Lundy’s Lane

Question 14

What state did the British want to take a piece?

Answer 14

Maine

Question 15

Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?

Answer 15

Francis Scott Key

Question 16

What was the fort that defended Baltimore Harbor?

Answer 16

Fort McHenry

Question 17

Who was the first lady that saved many of the valuable things in the White House from the British?

Answer 17

Dolley Madison

Question 18

Who were the people the British wanted to have a nation between the US and Canada?

Answer 18

Indians

Question 19

What was the name of the treaty that ended the war of 1812?

Answer 19

Treaty of Ghent

Question 20

Who was the hero of the battle of New Orleans?

Answer 20

Andrew Jackson

Question 21

What was the name of the battle where Jackson defeated the Creek Indians?

Answer 21

Horseshoe Bend

Question 22

Why did the British decided to make peace on good terms?

Answer 22

The US won at Plattsburgh Bay and Baltimore. Britain new it would be a long fight and they were tired of war.

Question 23

Why would Andrew Jackson especially hate the British?

Answer 23

He was slashed by a British soldier during the revolution for refusing to clean his boots.

Question 24

What two things increased because of the war of 1812?

Answer 24

Manufacturing and nationalism

Question 25

How did tariffs help American factories?

Answer 25

They raised the price of foreign goods so people bought the American Ones

Question 26

Why was the battle of New Orleans and unusual victory?

Answer 26

It was fought after the war had ended

Question 27

What part of the country liked tariffs?

Answer 27

The Northeast

Question 28

What part of the country did not like tariffs?

Answer 28

The west and south

Question 29

What was Andrew Jackson's nickname?

Answer 29

Old hickory

Question 30

Who won the battle of Plattsburgh today?

Answer 30

Thomas McDonough

Question 31

Who won the battle of Lake Erie?

Answer 31

Oliver Perry

Question 32

Who won the battle of Tippecanoe and Thames River?

Answer 32

William Henry Harrison

Question 33

Who won the battle of New Orleans?

Answer 33

Andrew Jackson

Question 34

Who sent the Navy to attack Tripoli on the barberry coast?

Answer 34

Thomas Jefferson

Question 35

Why was America not ready for the war of 1812?

Answer 35

The Democratic Republican Congress had not raised money to expand the tiny Navy and Army.

Question 36

Who were the people of Canada who fought so hard against the Americans?

Answer 36

The Tories who fled the US during the Revolution and the Frenchman of new France.

Question 37

Why did Thomas Jefferson not believe he could make the Louisiana purchase and why did he do it?

Answer 37

The Constitution does not allow land purchases but it was too good to pass up.

Question 38

What was stopped by the American victory at the battle of Plattsburgh Bay?

Answer 38

An invasion of New York down Lake Champlain

Question 39

What was the Louisiana purchase?

Answer 39

It was the land west of the Mississippi bought by the US from France in 1803

Question 40

What was the most famous American warship in the war of 1812?

Answer 40

The USS Constitution

Question 41

Which US warship was attacked by the British and had several men killed and four sailors kidnapped before the war 1812?

Answer 41

The USS Chesapeake