Chapter 12

Question 1

Warhawks

Answer 1

congress elected in 1810
young hotheads who wanted war
democratic republicans from West and South

Question 2

US attack plan on Canada

Answer 2

Three-Pronged offensive on Thames, Ontario, Montreal

Question 3

US battle victory in war of 1812

Answer 3

Oliver Hazard Perry’s fleet defeated British Navy on Lake Erie
Sept 10, 1813

Question 4

Battle of Thames

Answer 4

British victory

Question 5

Military condition in 1812

Answer 5

ill trained
ill disciplined
unorganized

Question 6

British attack points in 1814

Answer 6

New Orleans
New York
Baltimore

Question 7

Battle of Fort McHenry

Answer 7

US victory

Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner

Question 8

Captain Thomas Macdonough

Answer 8

Lead US navy at the Battle of Lake Champlain destroying the British fleet

Question 9

effects of Embargo Act

Answer 9

debased New England shipping
caused economic depression
citizens argued for a declaration of war

Question 10

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 10

signed Dec 24, 1814 (Christmas Eve)
no winner
real losers: native Americans
nothing gained and nothing lost
respected each other's boundaries

Question 11

to end war in “status quo antebellum”

Answer 11

to end the war in the state in which things were before

Question 12

Battle of New Orleans

Answer 12

British: more soldiers and river ways
US: higher grounder and ships
US won battle
irony: war ended before the battle

Question 13

Hartford Convention

Answer 13

1814
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island
26 men in Hartford, Connecticut from Dec 15, 1814 to Jan 5, 1815

Question 14

demands of Hartford Convention

Answer 14

financial assistance for lost trade
2/3 of congress votes to impose embryos, new states, and war declarations
abolish 3/5 compromise, limit presidency to 1 term, and prohibit election of presidents from the same state

Question 15

nation’s first writers of importance to use AmericN theses and scenes

Answer 15

Washington Leving

James Fenimore

Question 16

3 acts of nationalism

Answer 16

school textbooks written by Americans for Americans
10,000 man army
rebuilt Capitol
enlarged army

Question 17

The American System was written by

Answer 17

Henry Clay

Question 18

Tariff f 1816

Answer 18

primarily for protection
20 to 25% on value of dutiable imports
made British goods more expensive

Question 19

won election of 1816

Answer 19

James Monroe

Question 20

Virginia Dynasty

Answer 20

Washington
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe

Question 21

Panic of 1819

Answer 21

banks loaned too many citizens money

5,000 banks foreclosed

Question 22

Land Act of 1820

Answer 22

purchase 80 acres at a minimum of $1.75 per acre in west

Question 23

number of states by 1820

Answer 23

22

Question 24

Thallmadge Amendment

Answer 24

created by James Thallmadge
Missouri cannot bring in anymore slaves
any slaves born in Missouri will be free
gradual emancipation of slavery

Question 25

Missouri Compromise

Answer 25

1819 and ratified in 1820 Missouri becomes slave state Main becomes free state 22 to 24 states

Question 26

Election of 1820

Answer 26

James Monroe won | only president to be reflected after term in which major financial panic began

Question 27

Treaty of 1818

Answer 27

share New-Foundland fisheries with Canada | 10 year joint occupation of Oregon between US and Britain

Question 28

Florida Purchase of 1819

Answer 28

Andrew Jackson secured commission of 200 men to enter Spanish territory Seized St. Marks and Pensacola Spanish cede Florida for Texas to become Mexico

Question 29

British foreign secretary

Answer 29

George Canning

Question 30

Secretary of State

Answer 30

John Quincy Adams

Question 31

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 31

speech to all European powers no interest in Europe but trade land already claimed in western hemisphere can be kept European powers can not try to invade land Western Hemisphere will take it as threat

Question 32

reaction to doctrine

Answer 32

European powers angered

Question 33

Why can't the European powers invade the Western Hemisphere?

Answer 33

British navy

Question 34

Russo-American Treaty of 1824

Answer 34

fixed south-most limit at 54°40'