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Treaty of Greenville | Established a boundary between Indian lands and areas open to settlement. |
Treaty of Ghent | Ended the War or 1812 |
Battle of Fort McHenry | Inspired the poem that became our national anthem |
Battle of Fallen Timbers | Victorious battle that took place near modern day Toledo, Ohio |
Virginia Dynasty | Held power in the early days of the republic |
Hartford Convention | Condemned the War of 1812 |
Land Ordinance | Called for the orderly transfer of land into private hands |
Missouri Compromise | Admitted Maine as a free state |
Adams-Onis Treaty | Spain agreed to cede Florida to the United States |
Battle of Thames River | Battle in which Tecumseh was killed |
New Madrid Quake | Change course of Mississippi River |
Northwest Ordinance | Made special provisions for religious liberty in the Northwest Territory |
Missouri River and Yellowstone River | Rivers Lewis and Clark followed on their way to the Pacific coast |
St. Louis | City where Zebulon Pike began his journey |
Washington, D.C. and Baltimore | Two cities British attacked on the east coast |
North-Lake Champlain, South-New Orleans | Name the northernmost and southernmost battles of the war |
3 | How many battles took place in the Great Lakes region? |
Horseshoe Bend | Battle that took place near the border of Georgia |
Mississippi Territory | Territory where the Choctaws were located |
Robert Livingston and James Monroe | Negotiated the Louisiana Purchase for the United States |
Old Ironsides | Nickname for the U.S. frigate Constitution |
Captain Oliver Hazzard Perry | Won the Battle of Lake Erie |
Battle of New Orleans | Battle won by the United States after the War of 1812 was over |
James Monroe | President during "Era of Good Feelings" |
Tariffs | Taxes on imported goods |
Henry Clay | Leading War Hawk from Kentucky |
Andrew Jackson | Defeated the Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend |
TRUE | True/False Daniel Boone led settlers into Ohio through the Cumberland Gap. |
FALSE (No, they went west and north from St. Louis) | True/False Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to explore Florida |
TRUE | True/False The Barbary Pirates demanded tribute money from American merchant ships. |
TRUE | The Louisiana Purchase more than double the size of America |
FALSE (No, she served under widower Thomas Jefferson and then James Madison) | Dolly Madison served as First Lady for John Adams |
TRUE | The War Hawks, mostly from the South and West, were so named because they wanted war with Great Britain. |
FALSE (No, it was Fort McHenry) | Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" while observing the bombardment of For Ticonderoga. |
FALSE (James Monroe died in 1825) | In 1836, President James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine |
Kentucky | means dark and bloody ground |
Big Bone Lick | The place where an entire valley was littered with the bones of giant mastodons, dinosaurs, and sloths |
salt | What was the main meat preservative at the time? |
Wilderness Road | the 300 mile trail blazed by Daniel Boone that led through the Cumberland Gap |
Boonesborough | A fort built by Daniel Boone south of Lexington, Kentucky. |
Kentucky | First frontier or western state located west of the Appalachian to be admitted to the Union |
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, part of Minnesota | States that make up the Northwest Territory |
state | When the population reached 60,000, the portion of territory would become this. |
General Anthony Wayne | A Revolutionary War hero who defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers |
Ohio | First northern state to be admitted to the union |
flatboat | large raft with a flat bottom |
Napoleon Bonaparte | French dictator who forced Spain to cede to France the land between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains (called Louisiana) |
$15,000,000 or 4 cents an acre | Price of Louisiana Purchase |
Lewis and Clark | Sent by President Jefferson to explore the Louisiana Purchase |
York | Black man who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition |
tepees | Teton Sioux Indian shelter |
Sacagawea | 16 year old Indian girl who accompanied Lewis and Clark |
Shoshoni | Tribe Sacagawea belonged to |
Mandan | Indian tribe that supplied Lewis and Clark with horses |
Montana | Where is Big Sky Country? |
mule deer | deer with ears like a mule |
Chinook Indians | helped Lewis and Clark find food in exchange for presents. |
Pike's Peak (snow capped summit of the highest mountain in Colorado) | What was the blue "cloud" that Lieutenant Pike and his men saw? |
Santa Fe | Place where Pike and his men were held prisoner |
haciendas | name for a Spanish ranch |
impress | term given to capturing American sailors and forcing them to work on British warships |
Embargo Act of 1807 | act declared to limit or stop trade with other nations |
Creek | Indians who attacked Fort Mims |
nullify | to repeal an act of Congress |
nationalism | a spirit of national pride |
Era of Good Feelings | A peaceful time during Monroe's second term that was marked by national growth and cooperation |
favorite sons | the most popular candidates from their particular region of the country |
sectionalism | people would vote for the candidate who would do the most for their section |
National Republicans | Party that wanted a strong central government |
Democrats | Party that fought for states' rights and sectionalism |
Jubilee | Hebrew celebration held every 50 years in praise of God's blessings on Israel |