Crash Course US History #11: The War of 1812
1.What is British impressment? Why did the US criticize impressment?
2. To what degree was the War of 1812 caused by impressment?
3.What “new land” was desired by the United States at that time?
4.The MYSTERY DOCUMENT is a criticism of U. S. policies, who wrote it?
5.Tecumseh’s brother Tenskwatawa was known as the what? What was his strategy & views?
6.The ambivalence many felt about the war was evident in that the votes were so close in both the House and Senate, which part of the country wanted war?
7.In what year did the British really put their forces into the war? Why?
8. To what degree was the initial American strategy in the War of 1812 effective? Explain.
9. Identify some of the US successful campaigns/battles in the War of 1812.
10.What did the British do in Washington D. C.?
11.At the Battle of New Orleans, how many men did Jackson lose?
12.What is the most notable thing about the Battle of New Orleans?
13.Though the Treaty of Ghent ensured that neither the U.S. nor Great Britain won, who definitely lost?
14.Identify the outcomes of the War of 1812.
14.The war of 1812 also ended what political party?
15. According to John Green, when did American interventionist policy begin?
Crash Course US History #12: The Market Revolution
1.Why was the Era of Good Feeling so named?
2.Though he never got to be president, whose vision of America is the Market based society?
3.To get something from Cincinnati to New York at that time took about how long?
4.The road that connected Cumberland, Maryland with Wheeling, West Virginia was called what?
5.Identify Robert Fulton’s invention? What was the significance of this invention?
6.What canal linked New York City with the Great Lakes? How are canals “like fertilizer?” –Hawthorne
7.The Baltimore & Ohio was the first commercial what?
8.What type of power did the first factories rely upon and what shortly thereafter fueled factories?
9.What is the connection between factories & corporations?
10.The court cases which depicted the rights allotted to corporations tells us what about the process of the market revolution?
11.Prior to the Market Revolution, the production of goods at home was largely done by what group?
12.Instead of being paid a price, workers in factories were paid a what?
13.Why did many feel that working in factories restricted their freedom? How was this movement/belief correspond to migration?
14.The concept that it is a God-given right to spread out across the continent is called what?
15.The migration west meant that factory owners now employed what group?
16.Who was the author of the MYSTERY DOCUMENT? Summarize the basic argument of the author/speaker.
15.The periods of “booms” and “busts” made up what?