Chapter 9: War Expansion & Indian Removal

Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, called on Native Americans to ___________

return to Indigenous traditions

What did Tecumseh do after William Henry Harrison refused to rescind the Treaty of Fort Wayne?

he headed to Creek country to solicit support for a "pan-Indian" confederacy

What were the goals of the "civilization program" directed at Native Americans?

to convert Native Americans to European American ways of life

to make territory available for white settlement

What occurred when Tecumseh and his delegation went to Creek country bearing a pipe?

he made a case for unity among Native American nations

he could not persuade the leaders of the Southeastern groups to join his military alliance

Why had relations between the United States and Great Britain deteriorated by the summer of 1812?

the British had agreed to supply Tecumseh's forces with military supplies

Americans were angry about the impressment of American soldiers into the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars

Why was the outcome of the American Revolution devastating for Native Americans?

Britain had tried to maintain a buffer zone between Native American land and British colonial land

Tecumseh believed that __________.

Native Americans shared a common identity and represented a single political body

By 1811, a civil war broken out within the __________ Nation between supporters of U.S. government civilization programs and opponents.

Creek

Following their successful attack on Washington, d.c. In 1814, British forces proceeded toward __________ but were unsuccessful in capturing a key fort there.

Baltimore

The outcome of the Battle of Tippecanoe discredited __________

the Prophet

Why were the War Hawks eager to declare war on Great Britain?

they wanted to respond to Britain's attacks on American ships and sailors during the Napoleonic Wars

they hoped that war would provide an opportunity to expand the northern and southern borders of the United States

Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, called on Native Americans to __________.

return to indigenous traditions

Following British attacks on Washington D.C. and Baltimore in 1814, antiwar settlement intensified among __________.

Federalists in New England

During the War of 1812, who were the Redsticks?

Creek people who responded to Tecumseh's call to use force to resist U.S. authority

As part of their attack on Washington, D.C., in 1814, the British __________.

burned several major government buildings

What were resolutions passed by Federalist leaders at the Hartford Convention in December 1814?

require a two-thirds majority in Congress in order to declare war

After a victory at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, General Andrew Jackson __________.

dictated peace terms and redistributed Creek land, including that of his allies

What were two outcomes of the American victory at the Battle of New Orleans?

the Federalists who had met at the Hartford Convention suffered political damage

Andrew Jackson emerged as a national hero

What were outcomes of the 1816 presidential election?

itt marked the end of the Federalists as a national party

James Madison secured a landslide victory in the Electoral College

In the Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817, the United States and Great Britain __________.

committed to disarmament in the Great Lakes

Under the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819 (Adams-Onis Treaty), __________.

Spain ceded Florida to the United States

the United States gained access to the Pacific Ocean

As part of the Monroe Doctrine, the United States pledged __________.

to respect Europe's existing American colonies like Canada and Cuba

not to intervene in Europe's internal political struggles

What were part of the terms of the Treaty of Ghent?

Britain withdrew its insistence on a Native-American-controlled buffer zone along the U.S.-Canada border

Britain agreed to recognize the original borders of the United States from before the war

Following the War of 1812, the __________ party ceased to be a national political party of prominence.

Federalist

Why did presidents Madison and Monroe not support most of the transportation projects proposed by the nationalists?

they did not believe that the Constitution authorized building canals and roads

Following the Rush-Bagot Treaty, the United States and Great Britain further agreed to __________.

set the northern boundary of the Louisiana Purchase at the forty-ninth parallel

establish joint British-American occupation of the Oregon Territory

What were two primary reasons why the United States sought to acquire Florida from Spain in the early 1800s?

Spain controlled the southern coastline all the way to the Mississippi River, blocking American access to Gulf seaports

Spanish Florida was a refuge for people escaping slavery and for dispossessed Native Americans

The Monroe Doctrine __________.

warned European nations to not interfere with or colonize nations in America

The internal improvements championed by people like Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun focused on __________.

transportation

After the War of 1812, what did the Republicans do to stabilize the money supply?

they chartered the Second Bank of the United States

In 1819, Representative James Talladge from New York proposed a provision to make __________ a free state

Missouri

What were the two main components of the Missouri Compromise?

except for Missouri, slavery would not be permitted in the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36 30' latitude

Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state

What factors contributed to the Panic of 1819?

a rapid increase in the money supply

widespread land speculation

a rise in foreign imports after the war

The new spirit of religious enthusiasm that emerged in the early 1800s was most pronounced in which parts of the country?

the frontier

the South

Representative James Tallmadge proposed the Tallmadge Amendment because he wanted to __________.

reduce the power of states where slavery was legal

As part of the Missouri Compromise, Missouri would enter the union as a slave state and __________ would enter the union as a free state

Maine

Which organization focused its early efforts on attempting to convert Native Americans to Protestant Christianity?

the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

At canal meetings, Methodists attracted converts trough __________.

powerful emotional appeals

During the early 1800s, which area provided women with the most opportunities for public self-expression and communal distinction?

religion

What were two primary ways that new religious networks were established in the United States in the early 1800s?

Evangelical preachers traveled the countryside, recruiting people to their growing denominations

Northeastern Protestants used print to disseminate Christian ideas across the country

How did United States' policy toward Native Americans change after the War of 1812?

the federal government sought to remove Native Americans altogether from the eastern half of the continent

In the early 1800s, the term "Benevolent Empire" referred to __________.

nongovernment organizations that promoted Protestant beliefs and undertook charitable work

In the early 1800s, circuit riders were __________.

traveling Methodist preachers who preached the gospel and recruited new church members

How did women participate in evangelical religious networks in the early 1800s?

they became preachers and public speakers

they founded and served with charitable organizations

What aspect of the Treaty of Ghent was ultimately ignored?

the American promise to return Native American lands ceded during the war

In what way were the "Five Civilized Tribes " different than other Native American groups?

they ad adopted more of white American cultural and economic practices than other peoples

The Cherokee syllabary developed by Sequoya was __________.

a written alphabet

The year 1828 was an ominous one for Native Americans because of the election of __________ as president

Andrew Jackson

Following the verdict in the Worcester v. Georgia (1832) case, __________.

President Andrew Jackson refused to enforce the court decision

The Indian Removal Act required Native Americans living in the Southeast to __________.

relocate west of the Mississippi River

The Native American confederations known as the "Five Civilized Tribes" clung tenaciously to their land in __________.

the South

During the Trail of Tears, an estimated sixteen thousand __________ citizens and the people they kept in slavery were forcibly exiled to the Oklahoma territory.

Cherokee

What was true of the Cherokee Nation in the early 1800s?

they had a written Constitution and government system modeled after the United States

many Cherokee wore European-style clothing and spoke English

The theatrical production Metamora __________.

found an enthusiastic audience in New York

portrayed a Native American's curse on white people as a heroic act

How did the Monroe and Adams administrations' Native American policies differ from those of the Jackson administration?

Unlike Jackson, they attempted to negotiate land cessions by treaty

Unlike Jackson, they're followed U.S. law and treated Native American nations as sovereign nations

In Worcester v. Georgia (1832), __________.

Cherokee supporters sued the state of Georgia for violating U.S. treaty obligations

the Supreme Court sided against the state of Georgia

in 1830, President Jackson asked Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act, which __________.

authorized the president to negotiate and oversee the removal of Native Americans living east of the Mississippi River

With The Leatherstocking Tales, __________ became the first commercially successful American novelist.

James Fenimore Cooper

Within the Cherokee Nation, the Treaty Party, led by Major Ridge and his son John, favored __________.

rebuilding the Cherokee Nation in the west

While Metamora was one of the most widely performed theatrical productions in nineteenth-century America, the play was boycotted in a city in __________.

Georgia

What were some themes of The Leatherstocking Tales?

the author saw Native Americans as tragic figures doomed to extinction

the author portrayed white American culture as being enriched by its contact with Native Americans