War Of 1812 Quiz

Question 0

What did France do to any ship that followed Great Britain’s rules?

Answer 0

Have their good seized

Question 1

What did Great Britain force all ships heading for Europe to buy?

Answer 1

British licenses

Question 2

What did Great Britain do to American sailors on American ships?

Answer 2

Impressment

Question 3

What is impressment?

Answer 3

Forcefully taking sailors from American ships that deserted from British ships

Question 4

What act did Jefferson pass in response to the Chesapeake incident?

Answer 4

Embargo act of 1807

Question 5

What did this act do?

Answer 5

Halt all American trade with Europe

Question 6

How did this act affect the United States and Jefferson?

Answer 6

It hurt American’s farmers, damaged the economy and made Jefferson severely unpopular

Question 7

Who won the election of 1808?

Answer 7

James Madison

Question 8

What was the nonintercourse act?

Answer 8

Forbade trade with France and Britain, while granting the president the power to open trade with whoever lifted the restrictions first

Question 9

What reasons did the United States give for declaring war on Great Britain?

Answer 9

Native American raid in the west, Western and Southern planters losing profits

Question 10

Who threatened to secede due to the United States declaring war on Great Britain?

Answer 10

New England colonies

Question 11

What two Native American brothers went to war with United States?

Answer 11

Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa

Question 12

What tribe were they from?

Answer 12

Shawnee tribe

Question 13

What battle did they fight in the Indiana territory?

Answer 13

Battle of Tippecanoe

Question 14

What was the result of the conflict?

Answer 14

1/4 of the Americans killed or wounded, 1/4 of the natives killed over ended

Question 15

What was the American three-part plan for attacking Canada?

Answer 15

From Detroit (Michigan), from Niagara Falls (New York), from the Hudson River valley (New York)

Question 16

Why didn’t the American soldiers cross Canadian border?

Answer 16

The soldier stated that it was not in their contract to leave the US

Question 17

Who created a fleet of ships to fight the British on lake Erie?

Answer 17

Oliver Perry

Question 18

When did napoleons empire collapse?

Answer 18

1814

Question 19

What was Great Britain’s three-part plan for the United States?

Answer 19

British Navy will rate cities on the coast, British will march south into New York from Montreal cutting off new England colonies, British will seize the Mississippi River at New Orleans closing the river off to western farmers

Question 20

What did the British do when they reached the United States Capitol?

Answer 20

They seized the Capitol, and burnt the executive mansion, and the Capitol building

Question 21

Who won the battle Baltimore?

Answer 21

The United States

Question 22

The battle Baltimore inspired what to be written?

Answer 22

The Star-Spangled Banner

Question 23

Name the two key battles later one by the United States?

Answer 23

Lake Champlain and New Orleans

Question 24

When was the Treaty of Ghent signed?

Answer 24

1812

Question 25

What did the Treaty of Ghent do?

Answer 25

Ended the war

Question 26

What did the convention of 1818 state?

Answer 26

It established the canadian/US border, Great Britain and the United States jointly claimed the Oregon territory