Title: What British ship did the USS Constitution defeat in battle off the coast of South America which changed the way the British navy approached the US frigates?
1What British ship did the USS Constitution defeat
in battle off the coast of South America which
changed the way the British navy approached the
US frigates?
- Oxford
- Invincible
- Java
- Themes
- Victory
2Young congressmen from South Carolina and
Kentucky who advocated military measures to deal
with British contempt for US ships on the seas
were called
- Tomahawks
- Young Lions
- War Birds
- War Eagles
- War Hawks
3General _____ issued the call up of the
Massachusetts and Connecticut militias at the
instruction of President _____.
- Dearborn / Monroe
- Dearborn / Madison
- Dearborn / Jackson
- Jackson / Monroe
- Jackson / Madison
4Who was the governor of Massachusetts who defied
the call for the militia?
- Caleb Strong
- Jedidiah Strong
- Joshua Strong
- Caleb Adams
- Caleb Hancock
5When Connecticut responded the call up of its
militia it claimed to be
- Acting in conjunction with the other New England
states - Acting in conjunction only with Massachusetts
- Bound by inextricably by the Constitution
- Free, sovereign and independent
- A subdivision of the federal government
6In Connecticuts response the federal union was
described as
- a confederacy of states not a consolidated
republic. - a republic to which all states owed allegiance.
- a supreme, sovereign power.
- a compact of states owing allegiance to the
federal government. - a compact of state that were equally bound yet
free and independent.
7What occurred in 1814 that made the New England
states re-evaluate their stance on the war?
- The British captured and burned Washington DC
- Andrew Jackson defeated the Creek Indians
- Commodore Perry won a naval victory on Lake
Champlain - The British won a naval battle of Lake Eerie
- The British occupied a portion of New England.
8Massachusetts called the Hartford Convention
because it felt the federal government was not
- Authorized to call up state militias under any
circumstances. - Constitutionally authorized to engage the states
in war. - Adequately defending the eastern portion of the
US. - Negotiating with the British in an attempt to end
the war. - Attempting to prolong the war to gain more power
over the states.
9Who said, The principles of our Revolution point
to the remedy, - a separation. That this can be
accomplished without spilling one drop of blood,
I have little doubt.
- John Adams
- James Madison
- Sam Adams
- Thomas Pickering
- Caleb Strong
10Which of the following WAS NOT a consequence of
the War of 1812?
- It destroyed the Federalist Party.
- It destroyed the Republican Party.
- It generated intense feelings of nationalism in
the south and west. - It showed that a republican government could
fight a war w/o surrendering its institutions. - It launched the US toward economic independence.