Chapter 9 Section 4 Review
What title was given to the USS Constitution after she destroyed the Java off the coast of Brazil?
"Old Ironsides"
War Hawks
A name that Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun were called because they believed that America needed tok defend herself by going to war with great Britain.
Francis Scott Key
A prominent Washington lawyer who went to Baltimore to rescue a friend captured at Washington.
Hartford Convention
Condemned the war and echoed the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions by declaring the right of a state to nullify an Act of Congress.
How did Napoleon trap the United States into open conflict with England?
He sent word to Britain that if the orders in council were not repealed in three months, the United States would cut off trade with England.
Who was the fourth President of the United States?
James Madison
Dolly Madison
served as the White House hostess for 16 years
Battle of the Thames
the battle where the Indian leader Tecumseh died which brought the total collapse of his Indian confederacy.
Jean Laffite
took command of a point five miles south of New Orleans with the Mississippi River on one side and an impenetrable cypress swamp on the other.
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?
1) America gained the respect of foreign nations. 2) The war stimulated American industry. 3)The war created a new spirit of nationalism. 4)The war stimulated western expansion by crushing Indian hostilities in the territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi River.
Madison's four reasons for declaring war on Great Britain
1) the impressment of American seamen 2)the violation of rights within American territorial waters 3) the violation of American's neutral trade rights by the orders in council 4) The stirring up of frontier Indians
The Prophet
A Shawnee medicine man who encouraged the Indians to remove all white influence from their culture.
Henry Clay
A young statesman who believed America would become a great nation respected by the world, which played a crucial role in shaping America's destiny. He believed that America must defend her honor by going to war with great Britain.
In what ways was America unprepared for war with England in 1812?
America's army consisted of fewer than 7,000 poorly trained men and her navy had only 16 warships.
Battle of New Orleans
American's most heroic battle that was fought in vain.
Oliver Hazard Perry
An American captain whose soldiers built their own fleet out of wood hewn from a nearby forest and attacked a superior British squadron on Lake Erie.
The tough frontiersman who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Andrew Jackson
John C. Calhoun
Another young statesman who also believed America would become a great nation respected by the world, which played a crucial role in shaping America's destiny. He also believed that America must defend her honor by going to war with great Britain.
The most important navel engagement on the Great Lakes during the War of 1812
Battle of Lake Erie
The act which forbade trade with England and France but reopened American commerce with the rest of the the world
Non-Intercourse Act
Name the Shawnee chief who led a great confederacy of tribes against white settlers in the West.
Tecumseh
Fort Dearborn
The fort on the present site of Chicago, that Indians took and massacred their captives.
The Macon Bill
This bill provided for the reopening of trade with all nations, stating that if either England or France attacked American ships, America would stop trading with them. It helped American commerce but it also led the United States into serious trouble.
What treaty ended the war of 1812?
Treaty of Ghent
