THOMAS JEFFERSON & THE WAR OF 1812

Forcing American sailors into the British navy was called:

• kidnapping

• impressment

• enslavement

• forced labor

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the War of 1812?

• impressment

• War Hawks

• The Election of 1808

• Embargo

What was happening before the War of 1812 started?

• The United States was already at war with France

• The United States was staying neutral but trading with France and Britain

• The United States was helping France fight the Napoleonic Wars against Britain

• The United States was at war with Britain and the western frontier Native Americans

Thomas Jefferson did not know if purchasing the Louisiana territory was __________

• legal

• constitutional

• presidential

• congressional

What did Thomas Jefferson use to convince Congress that the Louisiana Purchase was a good idea for America?

• Treaty-making power

• Presidential power

• Founding Father power

• lawyer power

America was convinced that the Canadian British were encouraging who to fight Americans?

• France

• England

• Loyalists

• Native Americans

The brother of the Shawnee Indian chief, ___________, attacked frontier settlements.

• Tecumseh

• Sacajawea

• Pocahantas

• Prophet

How did the United States respond to British impressment?

• Declared war on Great Britain

• Sent ambassadors to negotiate peace

• Placed an embargo on British ships/goods

• Set up a blockade of the British Isles

What is an embargo?

• It is a kind of ship

• It is another name for an alliance

• It is a law forbidding trade with an enemy nation

• It means kidnapping another country's sailors and forcing them to join their navy

Who wanted to go to war with Britain?

• Republicans

• Democrats

• War Hawks

• Thomas Jefferson