War of 1812
What where the three main causes of the 1812 War?
1.What is The British started to impress American people after seizing American ships
2. What is The Chesapeake incident: American captain refused to let British search the vessel, so the Brit killed and wounded Americans in the fight
3. What is The battle of Tippecanoe: British arms where discovered among the natives
Why did Mexico and the U.S have a bad relationship?
What is the Texas annexation following U.S manifest destiny, With america wanting Mexico's land?
What where the economies of the Northern and southern Like?
What is the north being a industry run (manufacturing, factories) and what is the south being run by cash crops (tobacco & cotton)
What where the three other causes of the war?
What is
States right- the power struggle between state vs the Federal gov
Dred Scott decision- Slaves where not u.s citizens,
election of 1880- Lincoln won presidency due to regional selection and was not favored by the south
What was the first state to secede from the union why?
What is south Carolina due to fear of being subjected to Northern rule
Alabaman, Florida and Texas followed
Why did the British burn down the white house?
What is British retaliation against the Americans burning down the governor's mansion and legislative assembly at the battle of York
what area of land joined u.s willingly and what area was fought for by settlers and the u.s military?
What is New Mexico and California
What did the cotton gin do? what was it?
what is the cotton gin increased the demand for slavery in the south because now cotton was more easily produced (a machine)
what where the major battles of the war?
What is
Antietam- the bloodiest single day
Gettysburg- the tuning point of the war, the confederacy never again invaded the north
Appomattox- Where the confederacy surrendered
Why did Virginia secede from the union? and what where the other succeed states
What is them not wanting to fight the south?
The call for troops led to other southern states, Arkansas Tennessee and NC to follow
Why was the battle of New Orleans unique?
What is Andrew Jackson defeating the British after the war had ended in New Orleans and gaining victories against the British and destroying native Americans military power
Who questioned president Polk regarding the news that Mexico had started the war?
Who is president Lincoln?
What is popular sovereignty
What was the first battle of the war, what happened?
what is the Confederacy demanding the surrender of fort Sumter bombarding the fort with 4,000 rounds until the Union soldiers surrendered.
How did slavery end? what happened after
What is the emancipation proclamation ending slavery in Confederate Territories held by the Union and the The 13 Amendment officially abolishing slavery throughout the United States. Lastly juneteenth: June 19 an issued order announcing that all enslaved people in the state were free
What ended the war of 1812?
What is the treaty of Ghent?
What caused the Mexican-American war?
What is Mexico killing american troops posted in the Rio grande by president Polk?
What was the compromise of 1850, what did it do?
What was the u.s government trying to appease both the north and south by
north being given California as a free state
States being able to decide by popular sovereignty
southerners being promised stronger fugitive laws
What was is emancipation what did it do?
what is the Emancipation the freeing of slaves without payment, it was used as a method of war against the south, know as the emancipation proclamation
what where freed slaves, who was the two talked about?
what is slaves who were freed from slavery or where born free
we talked about Fredrick Douglass and Harriet Tubman
What was interesting about what ended the war?
What is the treaty of Ghent only ending the fighting and not the actual problems that caused the war
What treaty ended the Mexican-American war?
What is the treaty of Guadalupe
What was the Missouri compromise?
The 36-30 degree line which split the u.s
States above the line banned slavery
States below legalized slavery
President Lincolns role during the civil war and what happened to him after?
what is the inaction of the emancipation proclamation that allowed military troops in southern states, to free their slaves, he was killed shortly after the war had ended
What did the north believe in vs the south, Who was who in the civil war?
what is The north was anti slavery - union
the south where for slavery - confederates