APUSH Chapter 12 Vocabulary
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Barberree ch 12
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Isaac Brock | the British general whose inspired leadership aided the defense of Canada in 1812 |
| Horseshoe Bend | before being placed in command of the forces at New Orleans in 1814, Andrew Jackson had just won a crushing victory in this battle that took place in Alabama |
| Canada | the country that America unsuccessfully tried to invade through Detroit, Niagara, and Lake Champlain in 1812 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | the man who deceived the US in 1810 into re-establishing nonimportation against Britain |
| Chesapeake | because the British were starved for a victory over an American frigate, they rang the bells of London Tower in 1813 when the Shannon captured this American ship |
| Francis Scott Key | upon watching the bombardment of Baltimore from a British ship, this man wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| The Thames | the battle in October 1813 in which General Harrison defeated the retreating redcoats |
| Fort McHenry | the fort that defended Baltimore during the War of 1812 |
| Treaty of Ghent | the treaty that ended the War of 1812 |
| Bank of the United States | in 1811, at a time when the US was in need of a powerful financial institution, Congress permitted this charter to lapse |
| Andrew Jackson | the American general who crushed the southwest Indians in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814 |
| James Monroe | the man who won the presidential election of 1816 by a vote of 183 to 34 |
| Thomas MacDonough | the naval hero of the historic battle on Lake Champlain in September 1814 |
| Old Ironsides | the nickname given to the super-frigate Constitution during the War of 1812 |
| James Madison | in spite of strong Federalist and disaffected Republican opposition this man won the presidential election of 1812 |
| Alexander I of Russia | the European leader who initiated the peace process in 1812 so that Britain would be free to do more to keep France from conquering his country |
| William Henry Harrison | the American general who burned the Indian capital at Tippecanoe in November 1811 |
| New Orleans | the only land victory for the Americans in the War of 1812 that was not set up by naval power and actually took place after the peace treaty had been signed |
| James Madison | the president duped by the French leader in 1810 into thinking that France had repealed her commercial restrictions |
| Henry Clay | the Kentucky representative elected speaker of the House at the youthful age of 34 in the year 1811 |
| Tippecanoe | the battle in the Indiana Territory in 1811 in which Tecumseh attacked an American force of 1000 men |
| Mr Madison's War | the name used in reference to the War of 1812 by the bitter Federalists |
| Oliver Hazard Perry | the American naval officer who upon defeating the British on Lake Erie declared, "We have met the enemy and they are ours—two ships, two brigs, one schooner, and one sloop" |
| Rush-Bagot Agreement | the British-US agreement of 1817 which eventually led to our having the longest unfortified border in the world |
| Tecumseh | the Shawnee Indian leader who tried to organize a great confederacy of all the tribes east of the Mississippi during the time of the War of 1812 |
| Hartford Convention | the meeting in late 1814 of disgruntled New Englanders and Federalists who sought ways to reserve the war-bent policies of the administration |
| war hawks | the name used to describe the young men of the 12th Congress in 1811 who were spoiling for a fight with Britain |
| Plattsburg | the battle in which a weaker American fleet won a very significant victory in September 1814 on Lake Champlain |
| Washington, DC | a formidable British force landed in the Chesapeake Bay area in August 1814 and proceeded to burn this major city |
| privateers | the American merchant ships used to fight the British in the War of 1812 |
| War of 1812 | regarded by Bailey as the Second War for American Independence |
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