US History Flash Cards

Chapters 10-1 2 for US

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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
Trafalgar
The British Orders in Council specified that
Any country that wanted to ship goods to France must first send them to a British port and pay taxes on them
The American ship that came under attack from the British in 1807 was the
Chesapeake
The New York politician who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel was

Aaron Burr
The President who succeeded Jefferson in 1808 was
James Madison
One development that helped to destroy the Federalist party after 1815 was
Their flirtation with secession during the War of 1812
One of the two treaties with Britain that settled the U.S.-Canadian border was the
Rush-Bagot Treaty of 1817
To reward veterans of the War of 1812, what did Congress do?
Offered them 160-acre plots of land in the territory between the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers
The Cherokee leader who embraced the government's attempts to press the Cherokee to adopt European- American ways was
The Ridge
The Embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812 stimulated the growth of

Home manufacturers
In 1790, 700,000 slaves resided in the U.S. In 1810, the number was
1.1 million
The United States formally outlawed the importation of new slaves in what year?
1808
The two products that contributed to the economic expansion of South Carolina after the Revolutionary War were
Rice and cotton
Because of the revolution in ___________, French-speaking planter-refugees and their slaves came to New Orleans.

Saint-Domingue
An estimated _____ percent of antebellum slaves worked primarily as field hands.

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