Worksheets and No Prep Teaching Resources Reading Comprehension Worksheets The War of 1812

Treaty of Ghent The War of 1812

---

Treaty of Ghent
Print Treaty of Ghent Reading Comprehension with Fourth Grade Work

Print Treaty of Ghent Reading Comprehension with Fifth Grade Work

Print Treaty of Ghent Reading Comprehension

Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	high interest, readability grades 4 to 5
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	4.51

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		impressment, impressments, zone, pointless, fend, settled, lead, working, people, between, become, fight, peace, issue, life, meeting
	content words:		John Quincy Adams, Great Lakes, Mississippi River, United States, Many American, Andrew Jackson, Native Americans

---

Treaty of Ghent By Cathy Pearl

---

¹     The War of 1812 was ending. People from America and Britain were meeting in Belgium. They were working on a treaty that would end the war. But would either side give up anything? And if they didn't, why did they fight a war?
 
²     The peace treaty was signed on December 24, 1814. It was called the Treaty of Ghent. An American, John Quincy Adams, said that "nothing was settled" in the treaty.
 
³     At first, Britain demanded a lot of things. They did not think they were going to lose the war in the end. Britain was tired of fighting. The country had been in different wars for almost twenty years. The people of that country were tired of it.
 
⁴     Britain wanted a neutral zone around the Great Lakes. They also wanted to be able to use the Mississippi River. They also did not want Americans to be able to fish near Newfoundland.

Paragraphs 5 to 12:
For the complete story with questions: click here for printable

---

Weekly Reading Books

Create Weekly Reading Books Prepare for an entire week at once!

---

Feedback on Treaty of Ghent

Leave your feedback on Treaty of Ghent   (use this link if you found an error in the story)

---

The War of 1812

The War of 1812

---

More Lessons

Special Education United States History Materials for Teachers

---

United States

United States

American Government         Black History and Blacks in U.S. History         Children in History         Government Careers         Hispanic Heritage         How Can I Help?

Immigration         National Parks and Monuments         Native Americans         Presidents of the United States         Women's History

---

United States History

A Nation Divided (1840-1861)         A New Nation (1776-1830)         After the Civil War (1865-1870)         American Revolution         Cold War (1947-1991)         Colonial America (1492-1776)         Lewis and Clark (1804-1806)         Pearl Harbor         Spanish American War (1898)         The 1890's         The 1900's         The 1910's         The 1920's         The 1930's

The 1940's         The 1950's         The 1960's         The 1970's         The 1980's         The 1990's         The 2000's         The Civil War (1861-1865)         The Great Depression (1929-1945)         The United States Grows (1865-1900)         The War of 1812         Wild, Wild West         World War I (1914-1918)         World War II

---

50 States

Fifty States Theme Unit

---

Document Based Activities

Document Based Activities

Copyright © 2025 edHelper