Important Terms
Forcing American sailors to serve on British naval ships.
What is impressment?
This country was supplying Indians in the West with arms to fight American settlers.
What is Britain?
The US president during the War of 1812.
Who is James Madison?
Congress did this in June of 1812.
What is declared war against Britain?
This treaty determined the border between the U.S. and Canada as the 49th parallel.
What is the Convention of 1818?
Using a navy to keep an enemy's ships from entering or leaving a port.
What is a blockade?
Political pressure for war came from the War Hawks, who were from this political party and this branch of government.
What is Republican and Legislative Branch?
Future president who won the Battle of New Orleans.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
American troops tried unsuccessfully to invade this British territory.
What is Canada?
The time after the end of the war in America was given this nickname.
What is the Era of Good Feelings?
A government's plan for dealing with foreign nations.
What are foreign affairs?
This country was impressing American sailors.
What is Britain?
Native American leader who was killed at the Battle of Thames in 1813.
Who is Tecumseh?
This side was victorious in the Battle of Lake Erie.
What is the United States?
For the most part, countries from this continent were ordered to stay out of the Western Hemisphere.
What is Europe?
Congressmen who pushed for war with Britain.
Who are War Hawks?
The Napoleonic Wars mainly featured these two countries.
What is Britain and France?
American naval leader who won the Battle of Lake Erie.
Who is Oliver Hazard Perry?
After capturing Washington D.C., Britain immediately and unsuccessfully tried a siege of this city.
What is Baltimore?
This agreement limited armed vessels between the U.S. and Britain on the Great Lakes.
What is the Rush-Bagot Agreement?
Authority to rule over a country or region.
What is a sovereignty?
Two things the War Hawks wanted from the War of 1812.
What is more land and more respect?
Wrote the Star Spangled Banner.
Who is Francis Scott Key?
This battle "didn't really count" because it happened after the war ended.
What is the Battle of New Orleans?
Treaty that granted the U.S. possession of Florida.
What is the Adams-Onís Treaty?