Why it started
British officers stopped ships and forced men into the Royal Navy
What was impressment?
Militias often would not cross the line, and this post was surrendered.
surrendered.What was Detroit?
No land changed hands, and impressment was not settled in the writing.
What was the Treaty of Ghent?
He told Monroe not to sign a warning together with Britain.
Who was John Quincy Adams?
Clay backed Adams. Adams gave Clay the State Department. A secret contract was not proved.
What was the “corrupt bargain”?
In 1807 a British warship fired on an American ship off Virginia.
What was the Chesapeake–Leopard affair?
Thick oak, a win over Guerriere, and British shot that seemed to bounce.
bounce.What was Old Ironsides?
The report did not demand secession. The timing still made the party look disloyal.
What was the Hartford Convention?
Canada stayed British. Cuba stayed Spanish. The message did not offer to free them.
What were the already-existing colonies?
Hickory poles and barbecues on one side. Coffin Handbills on the other.
What was the election of 1828?
Both empires interfered with neutral trade. Only one of them had the navy to make the rules stick.
What was Britain?
After Bladensburg, British troops burned the Capitol and the President’s House.
What was the burning of Washington?
Passed to protect new American factories. The first tariff that was clearly for protection.
What was the Tariff of 1816?
The American continents were closed to future European colonization.
What was the Monroe Doctrine?
Property rules fell for white men. Women and enslaved people still could not vote.
What was a limit of Jacksonian Democracy?
After Tippecanoe, many western voters blamed Canada for guns and encouragement.
What was the frontier cause?
The flag was still up at dawn. Key watched from a ship, not from inside the walls.
What was Fort McHenry?
A Boston paper’s name for quieter party politics under Monroe. Not a country with no problems.
What was the Era of Good Feelings?
No fleet, no promise of troops, and Britain took the Falklands anyway.
What was a limit of the Monroe Doctrine?
Jackson called it rotation. His critics called it this. Marcy supplied the famous line.
the famous line.What was the spoils system?
Clay of Kentucky and Calhoun of South Carolina were the best-known of these congressmen.
Who were the War Hawks?
Jackson’s force won it. The peace treaty was already signed. The armies had not heard.
What was the Battle of New Orleans?
Missouri entered slave, Maine entered free, and a line was drawn in the Louisiana Purchase.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Nobody reached an electoral majority, so the House picked from the top three.
Nobody reached an electoral majority, so the House picked from the top three.
Veto, then deposits pulled out. Duane was fired. The state banks were nicknamed pets.
What was Jackson’s war on the Bank?