Quiz 14, Chapter 8, pp. 150-162

Question 1

____ led one thousand soldiers to defeat the Indians at the Battle of Tippecanoe.

Answer 1

William Henry Harrison

Question 2

Pres. Jefferson sent ____ to explore the southern half of the LA Territory.

Answer 2

Zebulon Pike

Question 3

The term ____ means to limit or stop trade with other nations.

Answer 3

embargo

Question 4

Francis Scott Key wrote _____, which was later set to music and became our national anthem.

Answer 4

“The Star-Spangled Banner”

Question 5

Who said, “We have met the enemy and they are ours,” when he defeated the British at the Battle of Lake Erie?

Answer 5

Oliver Hazard Perry

Question 6

What was perhaps the most violent earthquake in American history?

Answer 6

New Madrid Quake

Question 7

What man, who had personally written a large part o the US Constitution, became President after Thomas Jefferson?

Answer 7

James Madison

Question 8

Name the 14,110 foot summit that Zebulon Pike discovered in the Rocky Mountains.

Answer 8

Pike’s Peak

Question 9

What Indian leader was killed at the Battle of Thames River?

Answer 9

Tecumseh

Question 10

How did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 achieve a political balance between the North and the South?

Answer 10

by admitting Maine as a free state and providing for the admission of Missouri as a slave state