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What were the three prongs of our invasion of Canada in 1812?
What should've been one of them? |
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-Detroit
-Niagra
-L Champlain
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Montreal |
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What fort did the British take after the failed 3-pronged American invasion?
Who led the Americans? |
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-Michilimackinac
-General Confusion & Mud |
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| What was the first major American naval victory in 1812? |
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| Constitution beating the Guerrire |
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| Name three important naval commanders of 1812? |
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-Olivier Hazard Perry
-W.H. Harrison
-Thomas Macdonough |
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| What was the major naval victory of WH Harrison? |
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| Beat retreating redcoats @ Battle of the Thames |
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| Why didn't the British succeed in capturing NY in 1814? |
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-No roads forced them to move supplies over L Champlain
-Thomas Macdonough and fleet stopped them |
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| Where were British troops dispersed when they were headed for Washington? |
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| What two buildings were burned by the British in the War of 1812? |
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| where did the British point a failed canon that inspired F.S.Key? |
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When/where was the third/last British defeat of 1812?
What happened? |
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-New Orleans
-British were overconfident, launched a full-frontal assault...casualties 2000 v 70 |
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WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE TREATY THAT ENDED THE WAR OF 1812?
What did it entail? |
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-Treaty of Ghent
-armistice |
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| Who helped negotiate the Treaty of Ghent? Why? |
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-Tsar Alexander of Russia
-French troops were threatening Russia, and Russia wanted its ally |
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| What did the British originally want in the treaty of Ghent? |
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-neutralized NA buffer state in G Lakes region
-Control of G Lakes |
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| What were our mottoes going into / out of the War of 1812? |
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"On to Canada..."
"Not one inch of territory ceded or lost" |
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| How did NE prosper during the war of 1812? |
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| Define: "Blue Federalist" |
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| supposedly alerted British blockade of escaped ships |
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| Define: Hartford Convention |
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-When N Orleans Capture seemed imminent, MA, CT, RI, VT, and NH met
-requests ill-timed to victory @ N Orleans and Ghent, huge blow to Federalists
-wanted:
-financial assistance from WA for lost trade
-amendment requiring 2/3 vote for embargo/new state/war
-abolish 3/5 clause
-presidents can only serve for one term
-no two same-state pres in a row |
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| How many American casualties were there in the War of 1812? |
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| v/f: the British blockades led to more independence, domestic manufacturing |
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| Define: treaty that ended arms race between US, Britain for G Lakes |
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| name two prominent writers in the surge of American nationalism |
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| James Cooper, Washington Irvington |
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what was our first protective measure called?
why was it made? |
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-Tariff of 1816
-British were selling below cost to stifle new American war-baby manufacturers |
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| What was the American System? Who created it? |
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-Henry Clay
-PART ONE - strong banking = bolstered credit
-PART TWO - protective tariff, help manufacturing
-PART THREE - better roads/canals, help trade from S,W --> N, E |
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How much did Congress give to states to improve roads?
Why did Madison veto this as unconstitutional?
What improvement of NY did this lead to? |
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-$1.5 mil
-intrastate
-Erie Canal |
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| Define: Era of Good Feelings |
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-Monroe was president, and a very popular one at that
-Took a goodwill tour in 1817 to inspect military defenses, and received so warmly everywhere that papers declared it as a an "Era of Good Feelings' |
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| What largely caused the Panic of 1819? |
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| overspeculation of frontier lands |
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-lots of cheap western land
-especially appealed to Europeans |
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| one of most improved highways, one of many |
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| Westerners, low in population, joined w/ other sections to have this passed...=cheap land @ $1.25/acre |
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| Define: Tallmadge amendment |
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-prohibited MO from becoming a slave state
-gradual emancipation of children of existing slaves |
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-proposed by Henry Clay
-MO is a slave state
-ME is not
-Congress= 12 non/slave states
-any more states made in LA territory above the 36'30 line couldn't be slave states |
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| Define: Mucolloch v Maryland |
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-MD wanted to destroy a branch of the Bank of the US by imposing a tax on its notes
-Marshall used the elastic clause to rule the Bank constitutional |
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| Define: Cohens v Virginia |
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-Cohen illegally selling lotto tickets, convicted again
-VA faced a loss...decisions of state supreme court were challenged by supreme court |
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-"steamboat case"
-ruled against intrastate matters
-NY/NJ wanted a monopoly over waterborne trade w/ one another |
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-GA legislature bribed into giving 35 mil acres to rich speculators
-repealed @ public outcry
-Marshall said that they couldn't do that, since it involved a contract |
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| Define: Dartmouth College v Woodward |
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-Woodward tried to revoke George's charter for Dartmouth
-Marshall: Nope. Contract |
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| Darmouth alumnus/federalist/prominent legislator who tended to agree w/ Marshall |
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| Amers, Brits agree to share Newfoundland fisheries |
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| Name three prominent Latin American revolutions in the second decade of the nineteenth century |
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-Argentina
-Chile
-Venezuela |
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| What did A Jackson do when the Spanish were messing w/ FL? |
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| got a commission to go into Spanish territory, then hanged 2 NA chiefs, and took St Marks and Pensacola |
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| Define: FL Purchase Treaty |
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-Spain ceded FL, Oregon claims
-We quit our TX claims |
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NAME THAT MAN:
George Canning |
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| -proposed an agreement to tell Europe to back the hell away from L America |
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| JQ Adams didn't take Cannings' offer, knew British would have to protect their S America markets, releases its own statement |
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