Benchmark Review

1. Benchmark Review

2. Benchmark Review • 8.5.1 Understand the political and economic causes and consequences of the War of 1812 and know the major battles, leaders, and events that led to a final peace.

3. Turn to 8.2 in your Notebook • Highlight the six major battles of the War of 1812. • Turn to Study guide pg. 89

4. War of 1812 War of 1812 Impressment Embargo Smuggling Nationalism War Hawk Blockade Oliver Hazard Perry Battle of Lake Erie William H. Harrison Battle of Thames River Tecumseh Andrew Jackson Francis Scott Key Treaty of Ghent Battle of New Orleans Secede

5. 8.6.2 Outline the physical obstacles to and the economic and political factors involved in building a network of roads, canals, and railroads (e.g., Henry Clay’s American System).

6. Henry Clay’s American System • Henry Clay • American System • Dumping • Second National Bank • Charter • Protective Tariffs • Infrastructure • Interstate Commerce • Roads • Turnpikes • Corduroy Road • National Road • Canals • Erie Canal

7. 8.6.3 List the reasons for the wave of immigration from Northern Europe to the United States and describe the growth in the number, size, and spatial arrangement of cities (e.g., Irish immigrants and the Great Irish Famine).

8. Immigration • Urbanization • Irish • Germans • Famine • Nativist