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Reading 4.4
America on the World Stage
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Militaristic leader of France who sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States and sparked the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, which President Jefferson tried to stay out of through neutrality. |
| Barbary Pirates | Sailors from Tripoli who raided U.S. merchant ships, which caused President Jefferson to send naval ships to the Mediterranean in order to protect American trade vessels. |
| Neutrality | Policy of staying out of international conflicts by refusing to pick a side established by President Washington and continued by many other presidents such as Thomas Jefferson. |
| Chesapeake- Leopard Affair | British warship fired on a U.S. warship and killed three Americans and impressed four others, which sparked American anger and almost started a war. |
| Embargo Act (1807) | Law passed by Congress and President Jefferson that prohibited all American merchant ships from sailing to foreign ports in order to pressure the British, but hurt the American economy. |
| James Madison | Fourth president of the United States who started as a Federalist, but later joined the Democratic-Republicans and steered the United States through the War of 1812. |
| Nonintercourse Act (1809) | Attempt by President Madison to repeal the disastrous Embargo Act, but also maintain neutrality by reopening trade with all nations except the British and the French. |
| Macon’s Bill No. 2 (1810) | Law passed by Congress restoring trade with the British and French, but provided that if either agreed to respect U.S. neutrality then the United States would prohibit trade with the other. |
| War of 1812 | Conflict between the United States and British over free navigation of the seas, trade and disputes over the western frontier that essentially ended in a stalemate. |
| Tecumseh | Brother of the Prophet and warrior leader of the Shawnee that attempted to build a confederacy of Native American tribes east of the Mississippi River, but failed after the devastating loss at Tippecanoe. |
| The Prophet | Brother of Tecumseh and spiritual leader of the Shawnee that attempted to build a confederacy of Native American tribes east of the Mississippi River, but failed after the devastating loss at Tippecanoe. |
| William Henry Harrison | Governor of the Indiana Territory and general who led his forces in destroying the Shawnee headquarters at the Battle of Tippecanoe and later became president. |
| Battle of Tippecanoe | Battle in which General William Henry Harrison destroyed the Shawnee headquarters and ruined Tecumseh’s attempts to form a Native American confederacy. |
| War Hawks | Congressional representatives who supported going to war against Great Britain in order to defend American honor, gain Canada and destroy Native American resistance on the frontier. |
| Henry Clay | Young Democratic-Republican representative to Congress from the frontier state of Kentucky that was labeled a war hawk for supporting going to war with Great Britain. |
| John C. Calhoun | Democratic-Republican representative to Congress from South Carolina that was labeled a war hawk for supporting going to war with Great Britain. |
| Quids | Name given to Democratic-Republicans who opposed going to war with Great Britain on the grounds it violated classic Democratic-Republican values of limited federal power and maintenance of peace. |
| Impressment | British violation of American neutrality by capturing American ships and forcing American sailors into service with the British navy. |
| Old Ironsides | Nickname given to the U.S. warship Constitution which raised American morale by defeating and sinking a British ship off the coast of Nova Scotia. |
| Battle of Lake Erie | Important naval military engagement between American and British ships in 1813 on Lake Erie that resulted in a British defeat at the hands of American Captain Oliver Hazard Perry. |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | American captain who led American naval forces to victory against the British at the Battle of Lake Erie. |
| Battle of the Thames | Military engagement between the United States led by General William Henry Harrison and Native Americans led by Tecumseh, which ended in an American victory and Tecumseh’s death. |
| Thomas Macdonough | Leader of American naval forces against the British at the successful Battle of Lake Champlain in 1814, which stopped the British advance on New York and New England. |
| Battle of Lake Champlain | Important naval military engagement between American and British ships in 1814, which ended in an American victory and stopped the British advance on New York and New England. |
| Francis Scott Key | Author of the words to the “Star-Spangled Banner,” which he wrote after he witnessed Fort McHenry withstand a long British bombardment and not surrender. |
| “Star-Spangled Banner” | Poem written by Francis Scott Key after he witnessed Fort McHenry withstand a long British bombardment and not surrender, which was eventually turned into the national anthem. |
| Andrew Jackson | American general who won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and Battle of New Orleans and went on to become the 7th president of the United States. |
| Battle of Horseshoe Bend | Military engagement between the United States led by General Andrew Jackson and the British allied Creek Nation that ended in American victory and opened Alabama to American settlers. |
| Creek Nation | A powerful Native American tribe from the Southern United States that was defeated at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend after allying with the British during the War of 1812. |
| Battle of New Orleans | Military engagement between the United States led by General Andrew Jackson and the British that ended in American victory, but technically happened after the War of 1812 was over. |
| Treaty of Ghent (1814) | Peace treaty between the United States and Great Britain that ended the War of 1812 in essentially a stalemate with almost everything returning to the status quo before the war. |
| Hartford Convention | Special meeting of Federalists predominately from New England who discussed potentially seceding from the Union and after news broke of the meeting the Federalist Party fell apart. |
| Stephen Decatur | American naval commander sent by President Madison to fully deal with the Barbary pirates and allow American ships free use of the Mediterranean Sea. |
| Rush-Bagot Agreement (1817) | Negotiated arrangement between the United States and Great Britain under President Monroe to strictly limit naval armament on the Great Lakes that eventually extended to forts as well. |
| Treaty of 1818 | Treaty between the United States and Great Britain that provided for shared fishing rights of Newfoundland and settled various border disputes, which improved relations between the two countries. |
| Adams-Onís Treaty (1819) | Treaty between the United States and Spain that resulted in the American purchase of Florida from Spain for five million dollars. |
| Monroe Doctrine (1823) | United States foreign policy issued by President Monroe, but created by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams that declared the western hemisphere off limits to further European colonization. |
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