Chapter 11 - The War of 1812 and the Age of Jackson

Andrew Jackson

An American lawyer, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837

War of 1812

A war between the United States and England which was trying to interfere with American trade with France

Embargo Act

Closed U.S. ports to all exports and restricted imports from Britain

Macon's Bill No. 2

Intended to motivate Great Britain and France to stop seizing American ships, cargoes, and crews during the Napoleonic Wars

War Hawks

Someone who favors war or continuing to escalate an existing conflict as opposed to other solutions

Immigration

________- Irish + Germans filling eastern cities (preparation for Industrial Revolution)

Impressment

The act of seizing for public use or of impressing into public service

Self-made

Poverty → Southern planter aristocrat

Battle of New Orleans

National fame

1828

Elected President

Age of Jackson

Veto, Native American removal, Bank War

Battle of the Thames

Death of Tecumseh

Treaty of Ghent

Ended war w/ draw

Jefferson

Congress cut off trade w/ ALL foreign nations

West

Favored war w/ Britain

Impressment

Violated sovereignty + dignity

Tecumseh + the Prophet

Confederacy of Native Americans to stop white migration

William Henry Harrison + Oliver Hazard Perry

Moved troops into Canada

1813

Killed Tecumseh → Ended confederacy of Native Americans

Britain

Invade US through Lake Champlain → Threatened NYC + New England

1797

Launched

1814

Star-Spangled Banner

1845

Blight destroyed potato crop in Ireland

1817-1825

Constructed Erie Canal

Mike Fink

Flatboat man + folk hero

1789

Secretly migrated to US

1790

1st American textile mill

1793

Invented cotton gin

1835

Telegraph + Morse code

Electromagnetism

Send messages over continuous wire

1811

Fur trading post @ mouth of Columbia River

1830

Indian Removal Act

1890

Placed ALL Native Americans on reservations

War of 1812

USs lack of preparedness + unity

Immigration

Irish + Germans filling eastern cities (preparation for Industrial Revolution)

Battle of the Thames

Also known as the Battle of Moraviantown; an American victory in the War of 1812 against Tecumseh's Confederacy and their British allies

Thomas MacDonough

An early-19th-century Irish-American naval officer noted for his roles in the first Barbary War and the War of 1812

USS Constitution

Also known as Old Ironsides; a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy

Francis Scott Key

An American lawyer, author, and amateur poet from Frederick, Maryland, who is best known for writing the lyrics for the American national anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner"

Battle of New Orleans

Fought on January 8, 1815 between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson, roughly 5 miles southeast of the French Quarter of New Orleans

Hartford Convention

A series of meetings from December 15, 1814 to January 5, 1815, in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, in which the New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising

Irish Potato Famine

A period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1849

Canal Mania

The period of intense canal building in England and Wales between the 1790s and 1810s

New York City

The capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790

Samuel Slater

An early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" and the "Father of the American Factory System"

Eli Whitney

An American inventor, widely known for inventing the cotton gin, one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution that shaped the economy of the Antebellum South

Railroads

Opened the way for the settlement of the West, provided new economic opportunities, stimulated the development of town and communities, and generally tied the country together

Samuel F.B. Morse

Contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs

John Jacob Astor

An American business magnate, real estate developer, investor, writer, and lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War

American Indian Removal

Authorized the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders