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What is Great Britain?
Since colonial days, the Americans had hostile feelings toward this powerful nation. They had re-asserted themselves as an enemy now, seizing hundreds of American vessels.
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What is 1812?
President Madison asked congress to declare war against Great Britain on Junes 1, this year, unaware that Britain was ready to reopen trade again.
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Who is James Madison?
Becoming the 4th president in 1809, this "James" was caught in the middle of several trade disputes forcing him to declare war against Great Britain.
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What is treaty?
Ending the War of 1812 in 1814, the "T" word was signed between the United States of America and the United Kingdom.
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What is The Star-Spangled Banner?
Named as the national anthem in 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson, this famous tune was written after the battle in Baltimore's harbor.
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What is France?
James Madison's policy called for Great Britain and this other European nation to end their restrictions on American ships. They were also a key ally for years.
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What is The White House?
August 1814, the British well trained fleet landed in Washington D.C. and set fire to the capitol building and this other building, the president's home.
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Who is Tecumseh?
He was leader of the Northwest Indians and declared an alliance with the British in 1812. When he was killed in the Battle of Thames just a year later, he was said to have cursed the Americans.
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What is the Treaty of Ghent?
The document ending the War of 1812 was called this, named after a city in which it was signed in present-day Belgium.
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What is Revolutionary?
The War of 1812 is nicknamed the "Second THIS War", for the same enemy and goal shared with its predecessor in establishing independence.
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What are War Hawks?
DAILY DOUBLE: Several changes took place in 1811 as a result of these young and aggressive members of congress, nicknamed for their yearning for war, not for their feathers. They wanted action.
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What is Baltimore?
The British Navy in 1814 attacked Fort McHenry with powerful artillery shells in an attempt to capture the harbor of this Maryland city.
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Who is Francis Scott Key?
After the battle in Baltimore's harbor during the War of 1812, this Washington lawyer saw a flag wave over the battle and expressed his national pride in a poem, later named the national anthem.
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What is nationalism?
The War of 1812 played a large part in establishing the American identity, it significantly grew THIS in the country, meaning pride for one's own country.
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What is Democratic-Republican?
With a power base deriving primarily from southern and western U.S., President Madison was the leader of THIS 2-word political party during the War of 1812, against a centralized government.
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What is the Embargo Act?
In 1810, a policy was proposed by the U.S. to to permit foreign trade, an ability blocked by this act stopping foreign trade.
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What is Lake Erie?
In 1813, Captain Oliver Hazard Perry had a small group of ships that defeated a British Naval fleet on this Great Lake. It stopped an invasion into the Ohio Valley.
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Who is William Henry Harrison?
This General, and later the 9th president, defeated the American Indians in the famous battle of Thames that ended British-Indian ties and made him very famous.
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What is Canada?
Many historians argue the this nation, under British control at the time, had the greatest victory, preventing colonization, unifying the people, and leading to their independence later on.
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What is Shawnee?
Though leading a coalition of several tribes, Tecumseh was a member of this tribe in the now Ohio area.
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What is a confederacy?
The American Indians, supplied with British weapons, tried to organize this to combat western settlement, a word meaning a group that has formed an alliance.
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What is Alabama?
Andrew Jackson defeated the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend in 1814, forcing a treaty giving up 20 million acres of land. This opened Georgia and this other southern state up for American Settlers.
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Who is Andrew Jackson?
U.S. President number 7 became famous from the War of 1812, he led at the Battle of New Orleans and is the only president to have served in the Revolution as well as the War of 1812.
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What is the Battle of New Orleans?
DAILY DOUBLE: It is often said that the Americans had won the war, they had gained land from the Natives and won this major final battle, taking place in a southern Louisiana city.
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What are the Napoleonic Wars?
British historians see the War of 1812 as a minor squabble of these major European wars, named after the French leader who fought as Great Britain's primary opponent.
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