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NC Quiz 351-400: War of 1812, Rise of Industry
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10/15/2009

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Embargo of 1807
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forbade American trading ships from leaving the U.S.
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Non-Intercourse Act
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act only forbade trade with France and Britain.
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 Erskine Agreement
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U.S. offered to cease all trade with France and resume trade with Britain if the British would stop the impressment of American sailors.
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 Macon’s Bill No. 2
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Forbade trade with Britain and France, but offered to resume trade with whichever nation lifted its neutral trading restrictions first.
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Tecumseh
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along with his brother, Tenskwatawa, a religious leader known as The Prophet, worked to unite the Northwestern Indian tribes.
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War Hawks
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settlers who advocated war with Britain because they hoped to aquire Britain’s northwest posts
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Causes of the War of 1812
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 British impressment of sailors, British seizure of neutral American trading ships, and the reasons given by the War Hawks 
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Federalist opposition to the War of 1812
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composed of New England merchants, who wanted good relations with Britain and free trade. 
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Naval engagements in the War of 1812
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U.S. navy won some important battles on the Great Lakes but failed to break the British blockade of the U.S
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Francis Scott Key
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wrote the "Star Spangled Banner"
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Fort McHenry
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fort that was attacked and where the star spangled banner was written
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Jackson’s victory at New Orleans
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About 2500 British soldiers were killed or captured, while in the American army only 8 men were killed. Neither side knew that the Treaty of Ghent had ended the War of 1812 two weeks before the battle.
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critics of the War of 1812
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New England’s merchants opposed the War of 1812 because it cut off trade with Great Britain.
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Essex Junto
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was a group of extreme Federalists led by Aaron Burr who advocated New England’s secession from the U.S.
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Hartford Convention
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convention of New England merchants who opposed the Embargo and other trade restriction, and the War of 1812.
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John Quincy Adams, Albert Gallatin, Henry Clay
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among the American delegation which negotiated the Treaty of Ghent.
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Treaty of Ghent
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Ended the War of 1812
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Tariff of 1816
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protective tariff helped American industry by raising the prices of British manufactured goods, which were often cheaper and of higher quality than those produced in the U.S.
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Bonus Bill veto
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Madison vetoed John C. Calhoun’s Bonus Bill, which would have used the bonus money paid to the government by the Second National Bank to build roads and canals.
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Rush-Bagot Treaty,
Definition
reaty between the U.S. and Great Britain (which controlled Canada) provided for the mutual disarmament of the Great Lakes.
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 Convention of 1818
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Set the border between the U.S. and Canada at the 49th parallel (or latitude).
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Panic of 1819
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A natural post-war depression caused by overproduction and the reduced demand for goods after the war. 
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West Florida, 1810
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U.S. wanted this region, which now forms the southern parts of the states of Alabama and Mississippi, because it bordered the Mississippi River.
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Jackson in Florida
Definition
successful attacks convinced the Spanish that they could not defend Florida against the U.S.
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Purchase of Florida
Definition
Under the Adams-Onis Treaty, Spain sold Florida to the U.S., and the U.S. gave up its claims to Texas.
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 Transcontinental Treaty (Adams-Onis Treaty)
Definition
Spain gave up Florida to the U.S. and the U.S./Mexico border was set so that Texas and the American Southwest would be part of Mexico.
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 Quadruple Alliance
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was signed by AustriaBritainPrussia, and Russia in 1815.
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Holy Alliance
Definition
signed by all European rulers except the Pope, the king of England, and the sultan of Turkey.
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George Canning
Definition
Led the House of Commons in Parliament. Cut Great Britain from the Holy Alliance in 1823. 
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Monroe Doctrine
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Declared that Europe should not interfere in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere and that any attempt at interference by a European power would be seen as a threat to the U.S. 
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Era of Good Feelings
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A name for President Monroe’s two terms, a period of strong nationalism, economic growth, and territorial expansion. 
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Chief Justice John Marshall: decision
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Justice Marshall was a Federalist whose decisions on the U.S. Supreme Court promoted federal power over state power and established the judiciary as a branch of government equal to the legislative and executive. In Marbury v. Madison he established the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review, which allows the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional.
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Missouri Compromise
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Admitted Missouri as a slave state and at the same time admitted Maine as a free state
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Growth of industry in New England
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ndustrial revolution had occurred in England in the 1700s, but it was not until the period industrial growth after the War of 1812 that the U.S. began to manufacture goods with the aid of factories and machines.
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Samuel Slater
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emigrated from England to America in the 1790s, he brought with him the plans to an English factory. 
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Robert Fulton
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A famous inventor, designed and built America’s first steamboat, the Clermont in 1807.
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 Eli Whitney
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developed the cotton gin, a machine which could separate cotton form its seeds. 
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Interchangeable parts
Definition
Eli Whitney developed a manufacturing system which uses standardized parts which are all identical and thus, interchangeable. 
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Boston Associates
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were a group of Boston businessmen who built the first power loom.
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Daniel Webster
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A great American orator. He gave several important speeches, first as a lawyer, then as a Congressman.
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National Road 
Definition
first highway built by the federal government. 
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Internal improvements
Definition
program for building roads, canals, bridges, and railroads in and between the states.
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 Erie Canal,
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opened as a toll waterway connecting New York to the Great Lakes.
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Dewitt Clinton
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New York Governor 1817, supported the Erie Canal
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