Unit 5 - Settling International Issues

Unit 5 - Settling International Issues

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Multiple Choice

What Great Lake does Fort Niagara guard?

• Lake Ontario

• Lake Erie

• Lake Huron

• Lake Superior

Settling Disputes with Great Britain

• James Monroe becomes president and wants to use diplomacy to settle our disputes with Great Britain and Spain

• Rush-Bagot Agreement - limited naval power on the Great Lakes and demilitarized the border between Canada and the U.S.

• Convention of 1818 said the border between Canada and the U.S. along the Louisiana Territory at the 49th North Degree Parallel to the Rocky Mountains and the U.S. will get fishing rights off the coast of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia

• Both countries would occupy the Oregon Territory and share the resources there

Multiple Select

What did the Rush-Bagot Agreement do? (Pick 2)

• Said no warships were allowed on the Great Lakes

• Limited naval power on the Great Lakes

• Reduced the risk of the two countries getting into a war over the U.S./Canadian boundaries

Poll

Do you like Canadians?

• Yes, their bacon and hockey are the bomb.com

• No, it too cold just like their souls

• Towel off wet head!

Multiple Choice

What agreement created the boundary between the U.S. and Canada at the 49th parallel?

• Rush-Bagot Agreement

• Treaty of Ghent

• Paris Peace Treaty 1819

• Convention of 1818

Multiple Choice

What do Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe all have in common?

• They all fought in the American Revolution

• They were all secretaries of state

• They did not have kids

• They are all from Virginia

United States Gains Florida

• Seminole Indians are attacking U.S. citizens on the boarder with Florida

• Slaves are also escaping into Florida and living amongst the Seminoles

• General Andrew Jackson is sent to Florida and fought the Seminoles and took a couple of Spanish forts

• Spain decides to sell Florida to the U.S. before it just takes it outright

• The Adams-Onis Treaty gives all of Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundaries between the U.S. and Spanish southwest

• The U.S. would pay Spain $5 million for the land in Florida

• U.S. gave up all land claims to Texas

Multiple Choice

What Native Americans lived in Florida?

• Shawnee

• Miami

• Seminoles

• Mohawk

Multiple Select

Which of the following were part of the Adams-Onis Treaty? (Pick 3)

• Boundary between U.S. and Spanish southwest is defined

• U.S. gets Florida

• U.S. gets $15 million

• U.S. pays $5 million to Spain