UNITED STATES HISTORY
CHAPTER 8
STUDY GUIDE
IDENTIFY
PLURALITY
JOHN MARSHALL
CORP OF DISCOVERY
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
12TH AMENDMENT
MONTICELLO
SACAGAWEA
TREATY OF GHENT
EXECUTIVE MANSION
NAPOLEAN BONAPARTE
TECUMSEH
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
1. FRANCE NEEDED THE MONEY FOR THE LOUSIANA PURCHASE SO THAT AMERICA COULD
EXPAND AND CHALLENGE BRITISH POWER IN _____ ______
2. WHO MADE THE STATEMENT “I HAVE GIVEN ENGLAND A RIVAL WHO, SOONER OR LATER,
WILL HUMBLE HER PRIDE”
3. NAME THE CITY THE BRITISH ATTACKED IN 1814 AND BURNED MOST OF THE
GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS.
4. PUT THE FOLLOWING EVENTS IN ORDER IN WHICH THEY OCCURRED; THE CREEK WAR, THE
HARTFORD CONVENTION, TREATY OF GHENT SIGNED, BATTLE OF FORT DETROIT
5. WHAT WAS THE IMPORTANCE OF ZEBULON PIKE’S EXPLORATION?
6. WHAT GENERAL LED THE ARMY IN THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS?
7. WHAT WAS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BATTLE OF THE THAMES RIVER?
8. IN 1800 WHAT WERE REPUBLICAN POLTICAL CANDIDATES STRONGLY AGAINST?
9. WHAT WAS THE LAST STRAW IN BRITAIN’S BREACH OF UNITED STATES NEUTRALITY?
10. WHAT WAS THOMAS JEFFERSON’S MAJOR THEME IN HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS?
11. WHO WAS IN FAVOR OF A TRADE WAR AGAINST THE BRITISH?
12. ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON WHAT WAS THE THREE ROLES OF THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT?
13. WHAT DID THE LOUSIANA PURCHASE DO FOR THE SIZE OF THE UNITED STATES?
14. NAME THE THREE SIGNIFICANT FACTS OF THE MARBURY v. MADISON DECISION.
15. WHY DID THE EMBARGO ACT FAIL?
16. WHO BELIEVED THAT IF THOMAS JEFFERSON WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT IT WOULD BRING
THE CHAOS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO AMERICA?
17. WHAT DID THE CREEK INDIANS HAVE TO GIVE UP IN THE TREATY OF FORT JACKSON?
18. NAME THE LAST MAJOR CONFLICT OF THE WAR OF 1812.
19. WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION?
20. WHAT WAS TECUMSEH’S RESPONSE TO THE TREATY OF GREENVILLE?
21. WHO DECIDES AN ELECTION IF A PLURALITY OCCURS?
22. WHO WAS THE CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1800?
23. WHAT DECISION WAS MADE IN MARBURY v. MADISON COURT CASE?
24. FRANCE OWNED WHAT IMPORTANT PORT CITY IN EARLY 1800’S?
25. WHICH RIVER IS LOCATED WITHIN THIS PORT CITY?
26. WHAT DID THE FRENCH COUNTER-OFFER TO SELL TO THE AMERICANS? HOW MUCH?
27. THE COST OF THE LAND IS HOW MUCH PER ACRE?
28. WHO WAS HIRED TO DETERMINE WHAT THOMAS JEFFERSON HAD BOUGHT IN THE
LOUSIANA TERRITORY? (FIRST AND LAST NAMES)
29. AFTER CROSSING THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, WHICH RIVER WOULD SERVE AS THE
EXPEDITION’S HIGHWAY?
30. WHAT WAS ZEBULON PIKE’S MISSION TO DISCOVER?
31. WHAT IN COLORADO IS NAMED AFTER ZEBULON PIKE?
32. IN WHAT PART OF THE WORLD WERE THE BARBARY PIRATES LOCATED?
33. THE EMBARGO ACT CUT OFF TRADE WITH WHO?
34. NAME THE BATTLE IN WHICH GENERAL WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON DEFEATED NATIVE
AMERICANS OF PROPHET’S TRIBE.
35. WHO WON THE UNITED STATES PRESIDENCY IN 1808?
36. IN 1812, THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS DECLARED WHAT?
37. WHO WAS THE AMERICAN LEADER IN CHARGE OF THE BATTLE OF HORSESHOE BEND?
38. NAME THE NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE THAT LOST THE BATTLE OF HORSESHOE BEND.
39. NAME COUNTRY THAT DESTROYED THE WHITE HOUSE IN WAR OF 1812?
40. WHAT TWO ITEMS DID DOLLY MADISON SAVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE BEFORE IT WAS
BURNED?
41. WHERE WAS PRESIDENT MADISON WHEN HIS WIFE WAS FLEEING THE WHITE HOUSE?
42. NAME ONLY GOVERNMENT BUILDING IN WASHINGTON D.C. NOT DESTROYED BY THE
BRITISH.
43. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE POEM WRITTEN BY FRANCIS SCOTT KEY?
44. NAME FAMOUS GENERAL THAT FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS.
45. WHO WON THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS?
46. WHAT DID AMERICA GAIN FROM THE WAR OF 1812?
47. NAME THE ONLY TWO PRESIDENTS IN UNITED STATES HISTORY THAT DIED ON THE SAME
DAY.
48. WHAT THREE FUNCTIONS DID THOMAS JEFFERSON BELIEVE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SHOULD CONDUCT?
49. NAME THREE CAUSES FOR THE START OF THE WAR OF 1812.
50. NAME THREE EFFECTS OF THE WAR OF 1812.