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

Question 1

What was the strategy of attacking Canada?

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Oliver Hazard Perry

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Why did America now have to protect themselves?

Answer 3

Napoleon was out of power

Question 4

Who saved upper NY from the Brit attack?

Answer 4

Thomas Macdonough (that done though)

Question 5

What was the FIRST british blow?

Answer 5

New York

Question 6

What was the SECOND british blow?

Answer 6

Washington

Question 7

What was “the Bladensburg Races”?

Answer 7

the brits set fire to public buildings in the capital

Question 8

Who wrote the star spangled banner and during what event?

Answer 8

Francis Scott Key at baltimore while brits fire at fort mchenry

Question 9

What was the THIRD british blow?

Answer 9

New Orleans

Question 10

What was the problem with the third british blow?

Answer 10

frontal assault

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Andrew Jackson

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Who proposed for the British to mediate with the Americans?

Answer 13

Alexander 1 of russia

Question 14

What had the Brits wanted in the treaty of ghent?

Answer 14

indian buffer state, control of great lakes, maine

Question 15

Why was london willing to compromise with america?

Answer 15

Brit reverses in NY and baltimore, increasing war weariness

Question 16

What was in the treaty of Ghent?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What was not included in the treaty of ghent?

Answer 17

american grievances

Question 18

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

Answer 18

new england

Question 19

What happened at the Hartford Convention and what states participated?

Answer 19

NE states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island

discussed grievances and sought redress for them

Question 20

What was demanded by the Hartford Convention?

Answer 20

financial assistance from Washington and constitutional amendments

Question 21

What were the consequences of the war of 1812?

Answer 21

new respect for america, american emissaries treated with less scorn

Question 22

What was the biggest casualty of the war?

Answer 22

the federalist party

Question 23

Who were the war heroes?

Answer 23

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

Question 24

What was the Rush-Bagot agreement?

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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

Answer 25

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

Question 26

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

Answer 26

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

Question 27

What were the 3 main parts of the american system?

Answer 27

strong banking system, protective tariff, roads and canals

Question 28

Who came up with the american system?

Answer 28

Henry Clay

Question 29

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

Answer 29

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

Question 30

What was the panic of 1819?

Answer 30

deflation, depression, bankruptcies, bank fails, unemployment

Question 31

What caused the panic of 1819?

Answer 31

overspeculation in frontier lands

Question 32

What was the effect of the panic of 1819?

Answer 32

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

Question 33

What caused people to move into the frontier?

Answer 33

cheap land, land exhaustion

Question 34

What facilitated going west?

Answer 34

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

Question 35

What did pioneers demand?

Answer 35

cheap land, cheap money, cheap transportation

Question 36

What was in the Land Act of 1820?

Answer 36

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

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Missouri

Question 38

What was claimed in the Tallmadge Amendment?

Answer 38

no more slaves to Missouri, gradual emancipation of children

Question 39

Missouri Compromise

Answer 39

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

Question 40

McCulloch v. Maryland

Answer 40

Maryland wanted to tax bank -> loose constitution

Question 41

Cohens v. Virginia

Answer 41

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

Question 42

Gibbons v. Ogden

Answer 42

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

Question 43

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

Answer 43

white farmers, escape low social status

Question 44

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

Answer 44

yankees from northeast, land starved

Question 45

Fletcher v. Peck

Answer 45

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

Question 46

Dartmouth College v. Woodard

Answer 46

charter -> enabled chartered corporations

Question 47

What was in the treaty of 1818?

Answer 47

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

Question 48

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

Answer 48

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

Question 49

What did the Monroe Doctrine warn against?

Answer 49

noncolonization, nonintervention

Question 50

What was in the russo-american treaty of 1824?

Answer 50

fixed the southernmost Russian limits at the 54,40 line