Building Our Country: Chapter 7: Life in the Young Republic, Lessons 3–5

The impressment of American sailors meant that Americans were being captured and forced to work on British ships.

These supporters, who had a strong sense of nationalism, or national pride, were called War Hawks.

The American victory eliminated the British from the Northwest Territory.

The naval victories during the War of 1812 showed other countries that though the United States Navy was new and still small, Americans knew how to construct strong ships and how to sail them.

The poem was later set to music and became our national anthem, or song, "The Star-Spangled Banner."

The party had been against becoming involved in the war, some even talking about seceding, or breaking away, from the union.

So, the President issued the Monroe Doctrine warning European leaders that they were not to colonize or recolonize in the Western Hemisphere.

The doctrine became a key part of U.S. foreign policy, or official rules and ideas one nation's government uses to define its relationship with another nation's government.

Cherokee Chief John Ross filed a case with the Supreme Court stating that the Indian Removal Act did violate a treaty the Cherokees had with the United States.

They had to leave their homes, unprepared for where they were going, and adapt to completely new elements.

Also, during this time, different groups of Americans were trying to bring about social reform, or change.

A famine is an extreme shortage of food.

Beginning in the 1830s, people worked for the abolition, or end, of slavery.

In the 1840s, Frederick Douglass became a well-known speaker, writer, and advocate in the abolitionist movement.

After the Revolutionary War, in 1787, the Young Ladies Academy was co-founded by Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia.