MATCHING Match Each Description with the Item Below

question 8

Multiple Choice

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-Francis Scott Key

• A)appointed justice of the peace in the District of Columbia
• B)elected president in 1804
• C)negotiated the Louisiana Purchase
• D)a naval hero against the Barbary pirates
• E)a war hawk from Kentucky
• F)saw the British attack of Fort McHenry from Baltimore Harbor
• G)became vice president in 1801
• H)was chief justice
• I)an American naval hero in the War of 1812
• J)explored the Louisiana Purchase and Far West

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