Question 1

Oliver Hazard Perry

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captured a British fleet in Lake Erie.

Question 2

Thames in October 1813

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General Harrison's army overtook the British at Detroit and Fort Malden in the Battle of the

Question 3

Francis Scott Key

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American prisoner aboard a British ship who watched the British fleet bombard Fort McHenry; wrote the "Star Spangled Banner."

Question 4

Andrew Jackson

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defended New Orleans.

Question 5

The Treaty of Ghent

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Tsar Alexander I of Russia called the Americans and British to come to peace because he didn't want his British ally to lose strength in the Americas and let Napoleon take over Europe. Signed on December 24, 1814 in Ghent, Belgium.

Question 6

John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay

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went to Ghent for the signing.  Both sides stopped fighting and conquered territory was restored.

Question 7

The Hartford Convention

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Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island met in 1814 in Hartford, Connecticut for a secret meeting to discuss their disgust of the war and to redress their grievances. Marked the death of the Federalist party

Question 8

The Second War for American Independence

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The War of 1812 showed other nations around the world that America would defend its beliefs.  The most impressive by product of the War of 1812 was heightened nationalism.

Question 9

American System

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Developed by Henry Clay as a plan for a profitable home market. Had 3 main parts: 1) A strong banking system, to provide easy and abundant credit, 2) A protective tariff, for eastern manufacturing and 3) A network of roads and canals.

Question 10

The So Called Era of Good Feelings

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The time during the administrations of President Monroe was known as the ??????????????????????? because the 2 political parties were getting along.

Question 11

James Monroe

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The Federalists ran a candidate for the presidential for the last time in 1816. He won

Question 12

The Panic of 1819

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the first financial panic since President Washington took office.  The main cause was the over-speculation in frontier lands.The Bank of the United States became a financial devil to western farmers because it foreclosed many farms.

Question 13

The Land Act of 1820

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authorized a buyer to purchase 80 virgin acres at a minimum of $1.25 an acre.

Question 14

the Tallmadge Amendment

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It called for no more slaves to be brought into Missouri and called for the gradual emancipation of children born to slave parents already there.  The amendment was later defeated by the slave states in Congress.

Question 15

The Missouri Compromise

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by Congress forbade slavery in the remaining territories in the Louisiana Territory north of the line of 36° 30', except for Missouri.

Question 16

McCulloch vs. Maryland (1819)

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involved an attempt by the state of Maryland to

Question 17

Cohens vs. Virginia (1821)

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involved the Cohens appealing to the Supreme Court for being found guilty of illegally selling lottery tickets by the state of Virginia.  Virginia won and the conviction was withheld.

Question 18

John Marshall

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declared the U.S. Bank constitutional by invoking the Hamiltonian doctrine of implied powers.  He strengthened federal authority and slapped at state infringements when he denied the right of Maryland to tax the Bank.

Question 19

Gibbons vs. Ogden (1824)

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grew out of an attempt by the state of New York to grant to a private concern a monopoly of waterborne commerce between New York and New Jersey.  (Meaning that no other company could use the waterway.)  New York lost.

Question 20

Fletcher vs. Peck (1810)

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Georgia legislature granted 35 million acres to private speculators; the next legislature cancelled the bribery-induced transaction.

Question 21

Dartmouth College vs. Woodward (1819)

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Dartmouth College was given a charter by King George III but New Hampshire wanted to take it away.  John Marshall ruled in favor of the college.

Question 22

Daniel Webster

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"Expounding Father"; served in both the House and Senate.

Question 23

The Treaty of 1818

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permitted the Americans to share the Newfoundland fisheries with the Canadians and provided for a 10-year joint occupation of the Oregon Country without a surrender of the rights or claims of either America or Britain.

Question 24

The Florida Purchase Treaty of 1819

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Spain ceded Florida, as well as Spanish claims to Oregon in exchange for America's abandonment of claims to Texas.

Question 25

George Canning

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British foreign secretary. Asked the American minister in London if the United States would band together with the British renouncing any interest in having Latin American territory.

Question 26

Monroe Doctrine (1823)

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President Monroe, in his annual address to Congress, stated a stern warning to the European powers.  Its two basic features were non-colonization and nonintervention.

Question 27

Monroe Doctrine 2

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Monroe stated that the era of colonization in the Americas was over.
Monroe also warned against foreign intervention.  He warned Britain to stay out of the Western Hemisphere, and stated that the United States would not intervene in foreign wars.

US History Ch.12

from The American Pageant

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