United States History
Mr. Zishka
Problems with Foreign Powers and the War of 1812 – a WebQuest
Go to this site: http://library.thinkquest.org/11492/cgi-bin/pres.cgi/jefferson_thomas?foreign
1.
How did the Napoleonic Wars affect the United States? How many U.S. ships were seized?
2.
What did Jefferson hope to accomplish with the Embargo Act of 1807?
3. What is happening to American sailors in the pictures on this website? What is “impressment’?
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/62300/62319/62319_impressment.htm
4. Read the information at http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=373 . What did Tecumseh determine
what the best way to stop the advancement of white settlers in the West?
5. Go to: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/warhawksdef.htm . Who were the War Hawks? Name
two the leaders of the War Hawks.
Visit http://www.gatewayno.com/History/War1812.html.
6. Why did the War Hawks want to go to war?
7. How did the war go for America in 1812–1813?
8. What happened to Washington, D.C., in 1814?
9. Describe Andrew Jackson's victory in New Orleans.
Now go to http://www.usflag.org/francis.scott.key.html. It tells about the writer of "The Star-Spangled
Banner."
10. Who was Francis Scott Key and why did he go to Baltimore?
11. What inspired him to write "and the flag was still there"?
12. When was Key's poem adopted as our national anthem?
Visit one more site: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/oldironsides.htm.
13. Why can the USS Constitution be called a national ship?
14. Why was she important to the War of 1812?
15. Why was she nicknamed "Old Ironsides"?
16. Go to http://www.historycentral.com/1812/eirie.html to find out what Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry meant at
the Battle of Lake Erie when he said, "We have met the enemy and they are ours!”
17. What was the Treaty of Ghent? What were its terms for peace? Go to:
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/treatyofghentdef.htm