| A | B |
|---|
| Orders in Council | laws passed by Britain to hurt U.S. trade |
| French Decrees | laws passed by France to hurt U.S. trade |
| Impressment | forcing to serve in army or navy |
| Napoleon | ruler of France |
| Madison | president of U.S. at the time |
| stalemate | a tie; no winner or loser |
| Treaty of Ghent | the end of the War of 1812 |
| Belgium | where the treaty of Ghent was signed. |
| Second War of Independence | the other name for the War of 1812 because America stood up against Britain for the first time with its own army and navy |
| Chesapeake | U.S. frigate or ship that was destroyed by the British |
| Macon's Bill #2 | gave Madison the power to open trade to the world |
| Henry Clay | came up the name of economic plan, American System and a war hawk |
| Missouri Compromise | states above 36'30 were free; states below were slave; Maine would join unin as a free state; Missouri would join as a slave state |
| Monroe Doctrine | No foreign power can colonize the Western Hemisphere |
| cotton gin | increased demand for land that could be used to grow cotton |
| Eli Whitney | invented cotton gin |
| Industrial Revolution | developes in northeast; wokers who could not farm went to N.England factories |
| Lowell/Waltham | this factory system employed jobless farmers; especially women |
| Hudson River School | group of NY artists painted natural, American landscape |
| Knickerboker group | group of authors created original, American stories (e.g., Legend of Sleepy Hollow) |
| Rush-Bagot Treaty | US and GB agree to limit warships on Canadian border |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | with this agreement, Spain officially cedes Florida to the US |
| Andrew Jackson | sent to Florida to "clean up" and ends up taking over Florida |
| John C Calhoun | convinced the South to support the Tariff of 1816 and a war hawk |
| Tariff of 1816 | tax on IMPORTS passed to encourage growth of American indusry |
| American System | economic plan created by Henry Clay; each section of the country would focus on their best economic activity (NSW) |
| Florida | former spanish territory where runaway slaves escaped to and where Indian attacks took place |
| Latin American republics | won independence from Spain; US and GB had a profitable trading with these republics |
| Russia | Monroe was concerned about this country's expansion down the Pacific Coast; a cause for Monroe Doctrine |
| monarchies | these governments were going to help Spain regain her colonies in Latin America; another cause of the Monroe Doctrine |
| North | section of the country with the most roads, canals, railroads |
| Embargo | this act, passed in 1807, stated that the US would no longer trade with Britain who impressed US sailors |
| merchants | this group, along with farmers, hated the Embargo Act "dambargo" |
| Hartford Convention | where New England Federalists met and threatened to secede from the country |
| war hawks | young congressmen from the west and south who wanted to go to war |
| Dolly Madison | saved important portrait of George Washington just before DC was burned |
| Napoleon | promised Madison that France would stop seizing ships but France didn't |
| Madison | President of US when War of 1812 began |
| Washington, D.C. | attacked and burned by the British |
| Francis Scott Key | wrote the Star-Spangled Banner |
| McHenry | at the Battle of Baltimore, the British failed to capture this fort |
| New Orleans | this battle took place after the treaty was signed |
