History Quiz

Question 1

European port blockage

Answer 1

European ports were blocked preventing American ships to easily trading.
If Americans ships wanted to go across they’d have to gain a license and pass through British ships.

Question 2

American ships seized and searched

Answer 2

Britain began a campaign to seize and search American ships to look for British navy deserters. British tried to take American born citizens to work on their ships.

Question 3

American war hawks

Answer 3

A small, but vocal group of men from the American Congress
They felt that BNA was a source of good cheap farmland
They feared that an British North American and a First Nations alliance was forming.

Question 4

Recognition

Answer 4

Americans wanted to identify themselves as an independent nation from a Britain
Britain was still treating them like a colony though

Question 5

Battle of Queenston Heights

Answer 5

British and First Nations defended Upper Canada against the Americans
This prevented the seizure of an important area to BNA
Isaac Brock also died at this battle

Question 6

Battle of Beaver Dams

Answer 6

Laura Secord overheard Americans plan to ambush them
She decided to inform the British of the attack
An indigenous man led her all the way to Beaver dams
She told James Fitzgibbon so the British were ready

Question 7

Battle of Stoney Creek

Answer 7

700 British men did a night raid on invading Americans
They fired the musket too early and it warned the Americans
British was captured in the end

Question 8

First Nations in the War of 1812

Answer 8

First Nations worked alongside the British to prevent the American invasions in BNA territory
Fought to protect their own land rights