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The great 1805 naval battle in which the British, under the command of Lord Nelson, defeated the French and Spanish fleets was the battle of
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Trafalgar
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The British Orders in Council specified that
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Any country that wanted to ship goods to France must first send them to a British port and pay taxes on them
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The American ship that came under attack from the British in 1807 was the
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Chesapeake
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The New York politician who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel was
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Aaron Burr
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The President who succeeded Jefferson in 1808 was
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James Madison
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One development that helped to destroy the Federalist party after 1815 was
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Their flirtation with secession during the War of 1812
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One of the two treaties with Britain that settled the U.S.-Canadian border was the
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Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817
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To reward veterans of the War of 1812, what did Congress do?
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Offered them 160-acre plots of land in the territory between the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers
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The Cherokee leader who embraced the government's attempts to press the Cherokee to adopt European- American ways was
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The Ridge
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The Embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812 stimulated the growth of
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Home manufacturers
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In 1790, 700,000 slaves resided in the U.S. In 1810, the number was
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1.1 million
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The United States formally outlawed the importation of new slaves in what year?
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1808
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The two products that contributed to the economic expansion of South Carolina after the Revolutionary War were
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Rice and cotton
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Because of the revolution in ___________, French-speaking planter-refugees and their slaves came to New Orleans.
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Saint-Domingue
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An estimated _____ percent of antebellum slaves worked primarily as field hands.
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75
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