Building a New National Identity Test

Jefferson's Embargo Act of 1807 was very beneficial to American merchants, manufacturers and sailors.

• True
• False

An example of impressment is when a British warship captures an American ship and...

• uses it to fight other American ships
• forces the crew to serve in the British navy
• sells all its cargo before it is sunk

Shawnee leader who felt the best way to protect native land from American settlers was to form a large confederacy of Native Americans tribes from Florida to Canada.

• Tenskwatawa
• Tippecanoe
• Tecumseh

Led by Henry Clay and John Calhoun, this group of congresspeople lobbied aggressively for war in the hopes of capturing British Canada and adding it to the United States.

• Rough Riders
• War Hawks
• Battle Bots

Most early battles of the War of 1812 took place...

• near Canada
• near New Orleans
• west of Louisiana

Nickname of the USS Constitution, which won five naval battles during the War of 1812.

• Old Sivership
• Old Navydotcom
• Old Ironsides

The British burned the U.S. Capitol and the White House in retribution for the

• Battle of Tippecanoe
• Battle of York
• Battle of New Orleans

The Battle of New Orleans occurred after the war was technically over.

• True
• False

Who won the War of 1812?

• The British
• The Americans
• It was a draw.

What was a result of population growth in the Northwest Territory during the first half of the 1800s?

• rapid industrialization of the region
• conflict between free and slave states
• the addition of new states to the Union