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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poverty → Southern planter aristocrat

National fame

Elected President

Veto, Native American removal, Bank War

Death of Tecumseh

Ended war w/ draw

Congress cut off trade w/ ALL foreign nations

Favored war w/ Britain

Violated sovereignty + dignity

Confederacy of Native Americans to stop white migration

Moved troops into Canada

Killed Tecumseh → Ended confederacy of Native Americans

Invade US through Lake Champlain → Threatened NYC + New England

Launched

Star-Spangled Banner

Blight destroyed potato crop in Ireland

Constructed Erie Canal

Flatboat man + folk hero

Secretly migrated to US

1st American textile mill

Invented cotton gin

Telegraph + Morse code

Send messages over continuous wire

Fur trading post @ mouth of Columbia River

Indian Removal Act

Placed ALL Native Americans on reservations

USs lack of preparedness + unity

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

The capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790

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

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

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

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

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

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