Chapter 9 Section 4

What title was given to the USS Constitution after she destroyed the Java off the coast of Brazil?

"Old Ironsides"

Fransic Scott Key

A prominent Washington lawyer

Hartford Convention

Convention of Federalists delegates met in Hartford, Connecticut, in December 1814

How did Napoleon trap the United States into open conflict with England?

Convinced America to cut off trade with England

War Hawks

Favored going to war

In what ways was America unprepared for war with England in 1812?

Jefferson's policies of frugality, poorly trained troops, small navy

Jean Laffite

Led a band of pirates, famous Frenchman

Who was the fourth President of the United States?

Madison

Henry Clay

Young statesman from Kentucky

John C. Calhoun

Young statesman from South Carolina

What governor of the Indiana Territory led a force of troops to victory at the Battle of Tippecanoe?

William Henry Harrison

How did the War of 1812 benefit America?

-gained foreign respect -stimulated American industry -new spirit of nationalism -stimulated western expansion

List Madison's four reasons for declaring war on Great Britain.

1. impressment of American seamen 2. violation of American rights within American territorial waters 3. violation of American's neutral trade rights by the orders in council 4. stirring up the frontier Indians

The Prophet

A Shawnee medicine man encouraged the Indians to removal of white influence from their culture

Battle of New Orleans

America's most heroic battle of the war

Name the tough frontiersman who defeated the Creek Indian at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

Andrew Jackson

What was the most important naval engagement on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812?

Battle of Lake Erie

Macon Bill

Bill that provided for the reopening of trade with all nations

Battle of the Thames

Brought the total collapse the Indian confederacy

Oliver Hazard Perry

Built fleet out of wood hewn from a nearby forest and attacked a superior British squandron on Lake Erie

Name the act which forbade trade with England and France but reopened American commerce with the rest of the world.

Non-Intercourse Act

Dolly Madison

Served as the White House hostess for 16 years

Fort Dearborn

Taken over by Indians and massacred their captives

Name the Shawnee chief who led a great confederacy of tribes against white settlers in the West.

Tecumseh

What treaty ended the War of 1812?

The Treaty of Ghet