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Ch 9 Glenco
A Time of Conflict
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nationalism | loyalty to one's country. |
| War Hawks | Young republicans elected to Congress in 1810 wanting to declare war against Britain. |
| Tecumseh | a powerful Shawnee chief |
| In 1801, white settlers | began to move onto land promised to Native Americans in treaties by the government in the Ohio River Valley. |
| Tecumseh wanted the British to back his tribe | so the whites would not move onto anymore Indian land. |
| Tecumseh wanted an | united Indian Confederation of all the tribes. |
| embargo | a plan to prohibbit trade with another country |
| neutral rights | the rights to sail the seas and not take sides with fighting countries |
| impressment | to seize and force someone to serve as a soldier |
| Jefferson placed an | embargo on trade with Britain. |
| In 1807, Congress passed the | Embargo Act on all imports and exports to foriegn countries. |
| the Embargo of 1807 caused Britain to just | trade with other countries instead of the U.S.. |
| While France and Britain were at war in 1803, | America made a large profit from foriegn trading with both countries. |
| Britain did not | depend on American agriculture like America thought it did in 1807. Britain could get what it needed from other countries. |
| tribute | money paid to keep from being attacked |
| Napoleon continued to | seize American ships and sell them for a profit. |
| War Hawk | Republicans elected to Congress in 1810 that wanted the Us to go to war with Britain. |
| June 1st, 1812 | President Madison asked Congress to declare war on Britain |