American History I

Ms. Page

Read Chapter 6, Section 4, and answer the questions accompanying the timeline below.

1801 1) Identify and link the following: blockade - impressment -

Beginning of the First Barbary War in the Mediterranean embargo

1803
The Louisiana Purchase is finalized, adding more than 800,000
square miles to the western frontier of the United States

Napoleon is crowned Emperor of France following a coup d'etat,

and launches the ​Napoleonic Wars​​ - yet another epic struggle
between Britain and France (and the respective allies of each)

British​ impressment​​ of American sailors becomes one of the

most heated political issues of the moment

1805
2) Identify and link the following: Tecumseh - Battle of
Tippecanoe - War Hawks
End of the First Barbary War

1807
Great Britain passes the 1807 Orders in Council, restricting
international trade with France and enforcing a ​blockade​​ of
Europe
HMS Leopard fires on the USS Chesapeake - the impressment
crisis boils over

Embargo Act​​ passed in response to the British Orders in

Council and blockade
3) Why did the U.S. invade Canada? What is the link
1809 between this invasion and the burning of Washington?
James Madison is sworn in as the 4th President of the United
States and immediately pushes for legislation to address British
and French seizure of American ships and cargo.

1811
William Henry Harrison​​ leads U.S. troops to a pyrrhic victory
over ​Tecumseh​​ and his confederacy at the Battle of
Tippecanoe, with British aid.

1812
With some persuasion by the ​War Hawks​​, The United States
declares war on Great Britain.

A mob in Baltimore destroys the printing offices of an anti-war

newspaper 4) Why did U.S. military forces struggle on both land and
water? Were there any particularly significant victories for
General William Hull invades Canada from Detroit either the U.S. or the British?

The USS Constitution defeats the HMS Guerriere - all eyes on

the the U.S. Navy

1813
Great Britain declares war on the United States

Battle of Lake Erie and the victory of ​Oliver Hazard Perry

Battle of the Thames; Tecumseh is killed

1814
Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba off the coast of 5) In what ways did the Battle of New Orleans differ from
Tuscany; Great Britain now turns its focus to the war in America other conflicts in the War of 1812?

British troops arrive at Chesapeake Bay - Burning of

Washington, D.C.

Francis Scott Key writes the first lines of the poem which would
become “The Star Spangled Banner”

Delegates to the ​Hartford Convention​​ meet in Hartford,

Connecticut

The Treaty of Ghent​​ is signed - the peace treaty was negotiated

in Belgium, which was considered neutral territory, and the result 6) What were the provisions of the Treaty of Ghent?
was ​armistice​​.

1815
A​ndrew Jackson​​ leads rag-tag forces in The Battle of New
Orleans, defeating

One more question to consider: Why do you think historians have debated whether this war
constituted a “Second War for Independence”?