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What where 3 causes of the war of 1812?

Britain attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of U.S. seamen, and America’s desire to expand their territory

What is impressment?

Forcing people into military service

What was the primary focus of the Non-Intercouse act?

Restricting trade with Britain and France

Who led U.S. troops to victory in the Battle of Tippecanoe in the fall of 1811?

William Henry Harrison

Who was the American naval commander responsible for the brilliant success in the Battle of Lake Erie?

Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry

Who was inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner" after seeing an enormous American flag over Fort McHenry?

Francis Scott Key

What is the name of the peace treaty that ended the war between The United States and Britain?

Treaty of Ghent

What was congress’s response to Great Britain’s refusal to stop impressment?

Congress passed the Embargo Act, targeting Great Britain but banning all imports and exports.

Who were the War Hawks, and what policy did they support?

The War Hawks were a group of Republicans in Congress led by Henry Clay and John Calhoun. Spurred on by nationalism and a desire to expand the nation’s power, they called for war against Great Britain.

During the industrial revolution, people began using what a long rivers?

Machines and mills

In the U.S. changes began where? Why?

New England and because of its rivers, streams, and ports

Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which removes what from picked cotton? What idea did he also come up with?

Seeds and interchangeable part

What did Congress pass to protect inventors?

Patent

Francis Cabot Lowell began what? What does it do?

Factories and all manufacturing steps are in one place

The demand for what increase in the south as textile factories appeared in the north? And where did they move for larger crops?

Cotton and west

In the south they need what for trade because of the demand for cotton?

Enslaved africans

Cities developed along rivers so factories could take advantage of what?

Water power and easily ship goods

Why would cities become dangerous?

Fires and diseases

What explorer explored a native American trai through the Appalachian mountains to a break called what?

Daniel Boone and Cumberland gap

Six years later what did Daniel Boone do?

took 30 explorers and make a road so pioneer to migrate west

How many and who mainly built the Erie canal?

thousands of people and they were mainly Irish immigrants

By 1850 how many miles of canals did the country have? And what are three positives about canals

3600 and lowered shipping costs, increased wealth to towns along the canals, and linked regions of the country tougher