WAR OF 1812

What was impressment?

• kidnapping factory workers
• kidnapping sailors
• forcing people to work on farms

What is an Embargo?

• buying goods from your enemy
• not allowing people to grow their own food
• not allowing trade (ships blocked)

Why did the British trade with Native Americans?

• to try to upset the Americans
• only to make money
• to make the Americans happy
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What happened when the captain of the American Chesapeake refused to let the British take their sailors?

• The Americans fired on the British
• The British fired on the Americans
• The British sailed off and there was no war

American fort that did not fall during the British attack. Where the Star Spangled Banner was written.

• Fort McHenry
• Fort Knox
• Fort Necessity 
• Fort Scott

The British burned this capital

• Washington DC
• New York City
• London
• Philadelphia

American General who won at the Battle of New Orleans. Would become president.

• Abraham Lincoln
• Andrew Jackson
• George Washington
• James Monroe

British impressment of Americans, Embargo Act, Americans desire of land are 3 causes of the War of 1812

• True
• False

Senators from the South and West who wanted to go to war with Britain

• Eagles of Pride
• War Hawks
• Republicans
• Federalists

President during the War of 1812

• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• John Adams