Lesson 8

Question 1

USS Constitution

Answer 1

A large warship

Question 2

Impressment

Answer 2

the practice of forcing people to serve in the army or navy; led to increased tensions between Great Britain and the United States in the early 1800s

Question 3

Embargo

Answer 3

the banning of trade with a country

Question 4

Embargo Act

Answer 4

a law that prohibited American merchants from trading with other countries

Question 5

Non-Intercourse Act

Answer 5

a law that replaced the Embargo Act and restored trade with all nations except Britain, France, and their colonies

Question 6

Tecumseh

Answer 6

Shawnee chief who attempted to form an Indian confederation to resist white settlement in the Northwest Territory.

Question 7

Oliver Hazard Perry

Answer 7

American naval captain who put together the fleet that defeated the British at the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.

Question 8

Battle of Lake Erie

Answer 8

U.S. victory in the War of 1812, led by Oliver Hazard Perry; broke Britain’s control of Lake Erie

Question 9

Andrew Jackson

Answer 9

Nicknamed Old Hickory, he was an American hero in the Battle of New Orleans. As commander of the Tennessee militia, he defeated the Creek Indians, securing 23 million acres of land. His election as the seventh president of the United States marked an era of democracy called Jacksonian Democracy.

Question 10

Treaty of Fort Jackson

Answer 10

a treaty signed after the U.S. victory at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend; the Creek were forced to give up 23 million acres of their land

Question 11

Battle of New Orleans

Answer 11

the greatest U.S. victory in the War of 1812; actually took place two weeks after a peace treaty had been signed ending the war

Question 12

Hartford Convention

Answer 12

a meeting of Federalists at Hartford, Connecticut, to protest the War of 1812

Question 13

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 13

a treaty signed by the United States and Britain ending the War of 1812