question: Beginning in 1689, the colonies became involved in a series of wars between Great Britain and France for control of North America, the most important of which were Queen Anne's War, in which the British conquered French colony Acadia, and the final French and Indian War (175463) when Britain was victorious over all the French colonies in North America. This final war was to give thousands of colonists, including Virginia colonel George Washington, military experience which they put to use during the American Revolutionary War.

By far the largest military action in which the United States engaged during this era was the War of 1812. With Britain locked in a major war with Napoleon's France, its policy was to block American shipments to France. The United States sought to remain neutral while pursuing overseas trade. Britain cut the trade and impressed seamen on American ships into the Royal Navy, despite intense protests. Britain supported an Indian insurrection in the American Midwest, with the goal of creating an Indian state there that would block American expansion. The United States finally declared war on the United Kingdom in 1812, the first time the U.S. had officially declared war. Not hopeful of defeating the Royal Navy, the U.S. attacked the British Empire by invading British Canada, hoping to use captured territory as a bargaining chip. The invasion of Canada was a debacle, though concurrent wars with Native Americans on the western front (Tecumseh's War and the Creek War) were more successful. After defeating Napoleon in 1814, Britain sent large veteran armies to invade New York, raid Washington and capture the key control of the Mississippi River at New Orleans. The New York invasion was a fiasco after the much larger British army retreated to Canada. The raiders succeeded in the burning of Washington on 25 August 1814, but were repulsed in their Chesapeake Bay Campaign at the Battle of Baltimore and the British commander killed. The major invasion in Louisiana was stopped by a one-sided military battle that killed the top three British generals and thousands of soldiers. The winners were the commanding general of the Battle of New Orleans, Major General Andrew Jackson, who became president and the Americans who basked in a victory over a much more powerful nation. The peace treaty proved successful, and the U.S. and Britain never again went to war. The losers were the Indians, who never gained the independent territory in the Midwest promised by Britain.
1. what was the largest military action for the US?
2. when did the series of war begin?
3. which was the most important?
4. who did they defeat?
5. how long was the french and indian war?
6. what did this give the colonists?
7. whos side was the US on at first in the war of 1812?
8. how did Briti
9. what did britian try to do to stop American growth?
10. how did the invasion of canada go?
11. when did Britian defeat Napoleon?
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answer: 1. the War of 1812
2. in 1689
3. Queen Anne's War
4. the French colony Acadia
5. about 9 years
6. military experience
7. at first neutral
8. unknown
9. to block American shipments to France
10. it was a debacle
11. 1814

question: Many people consider their pets members of the family and are very sad when they die, but what if you could clone your dog, cat or bird?

A scientist in New Orleans, who has proved his ability to clone other animals, is now offering the possibility to pet owners here in Wisconsin.

Scientists have not been able to clone dogs, cats or other pets, but if and when the time comes, several companies will be ready and able to do the job.

The question is: Are you ready to clone your pet? Brett Reggio is betting on it.He is working on his Ph. D at Louisian State University. He's successfully cloned a goat five times and wants to try the process on family pets. So he started a business called Lazaron. "What Lazaron provides is the first step in the cloning process. "He said."It's for curing and storing the fiberglass cells that will be used for cloning."

"Your first reaction is yeah! I think I'd like that." said Donna Schacht, a pet owner.

"I don't believe you can ever replace a special love," pet owner Paulette Callattion said.

Most pet owners will tell you freezing your pet's DNA in hopes of one day cloning it is a personal decision.

Scientists say that cloning your own pet doesn't mean that the offspring will have the same intelligence, temperament or other qualities that your pet has.
1. Are scientists allowed to clone pets?
2. What is Reggio's occupation?
3. Has he cloned anything?
4. What?
5. How many times?
6. What does he want to clone next?
7. Did he start a business?
8. Called what?
9. Which stage of the cloning procedure does it perform?
10. What is stored in this step?
11. What are they used for?
12. What is Schacht's first reaction?
13. What about Callattion?
14. How can pet owners prepare for when cloning is legal?
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answer: 1. no
2. doctoral student
3. yes
4. a goat
5. five
6. pets
7. yes
8. Lazaron
9. first
10. fiberglass cells
11. cloning
12. she likes it
13. Doesn't think it replace a special love
14. freezing their pet's DNA

question: (CNN) -- Long before Chen Guangcheng became internationally known as a human rights crusader, villagers near his home knew him as the man to go to when they had trouble with local authorities.

Despite having little formal legal education, Chen began advocating on behalf of villagers in 1996 at the age of 25, according to China Human Rights Defenders, a China-based human rights group.

Chen has been at the center of a burgeoning international impasse since his dramatic escape last week from the guards who kept him under house arrest in a small village in eastern China. He was confined to his home after serving four years in prison, apparently over his legal advocacy for what he called victims of abusive practices such as forced abortions by China's family planning officials.

Fellow activists say he made his way to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, where he remains as the United States and China try to sort out the future for Chen, who has sought to call attention to the practice of forced abortions and sterilizations in China.

Yet he never sought out to be a rabble-rouser, said New York University law professor Jerome Cohen, who first met Chen when the activist traveled to the United States as part of a State Department program in 2004.

"You got the feeling you were in the presence of some Chinese equivalent of Gandhi or something," Cohen said. "He had this gentle but steely moral force."

Chen was born in 1971 in Dongshigu, a small farming village in eastern Shandong province, more than 400 kilometers (248 miles) from Beijing.
1. Who escaped?
2. From where?
3. What kind of punishment was he serving?
4. Was he guarded?
5. Had he already served prison time?
6. How much?
7. Why was he originally in trouble?
8. Where did he escape to?
9. In what city?
10. What issues is he concerned with?
11. When did he began advocating?
12. How old was he then?
13. Where was he born?
14. In China?
15. In what year?
16. How far is Donshigu from Beijing?
17. Was it a large town?
18. What is Jerome Cohen's profession?
19. At which university?
20. Had he met Chen before?
21. When?
22. Where did they meet?
23. Who did he compare Chen to?
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answer:
1. Chen
2. a small village in eastern China.
3. house arrest
4. yes
5. yes
6. four years
7. legal advocacy
8. the U.S. Embassy
9. Beijing
10. forced abortions and sterilizations
11. 1996
12. 25
13. Dongshigu
14. yes
15. 1971
16. more than 248 miles
17. no
18. law professor
19. New York University
20. yes
21. 2004
22. in the United States
23. Gandhi