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The War of 1812
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President Madison Takes Office
*Tension with Britain was high.
*Americans were angry at Britain because they armed Native Americans.
*The country's honor was at stake.
*Stronger in New England .
*Englanders had believed was with Braitain could harm American trade. -
War Hawks Take Power
*Members of Congress called for war with British.(They are called war hawks)
*They knew of Nationalism.
*They felt Britain was treating the US as if they were a British colony.
*They were going to fight a war.
*This was to defend American rights. -
Relations with Great Britain worsen
*Bristish told US they would continue impressing saliors.
*Native Americans began new attacks.
*Henry Clay wanted war..
*Clay wanted to leave British empire and join the US
*Spain was Britain's ally. -
Congress Declares War on Britain
*Congress wanted a war, they did declare it.
*The house voted 79 to 49. Senate was 19 to 13.
*Many American welcomed the news of war.
*They fired cannons in the streets.
*Americans who wouldn't welcome were going to leave the US. -
America is not ready for war
*America declared war to the British .
*America wasn't ready because Jefferson believed in small federal governments.
*The only had 16 ships.
*The army size was small.
*The officers new little about military.
*The Americans are now not ready for war. -
Briatin Blockades American Ports
*First day of war, British set up a blockade of the American coast.
*Britain had 135 warships blockading American Ports.
*United States wasn't prepared for this.
*The blockade was to shut a port down.
*British closed all American ports. -
Invasion of Canada
*William Hull moved the American troops to Canada.
*British troops helped Canadians.
*Canada tried to invade.
*America thought Canada was going to welcome them as liberators.
*Candians fought Americans and forced them to retreat. -
USS Constitution Scores Victory
*Isaac Hull, captain of the Constition saw a Britsih ship.
*The Constitution tore hole in the Bristish ship.
*The captain of the Constitution asked the British captain if he surrenders.
*The constitution barly destroyed the British ship.
*American sea captains won. -
Battle of Lake Erie
*British destroyed Perry's ship.
*Perry took his flag down.
*They continued the fight.
*British lefted Perry's ship destroyed.
*Captain Perry won the Battle and wrote the message "We have met the enemy and they are ours!" -
Battle of Thames
*Tecumsh went into Canada from Detroit.
*General William Henry Harrison pursued them.
*The Americans had fought .
*The Americans won the Battle of Thames.
*Tecumseh dies in the fighting. -
Horseshoe Bend
*Without Tecumsheh's leader, the confederation fell apart.
*Tecumsheh died in the battle before this one.
*Tecumsheh's allies fought.
*Andrew Jackson took command of American troops of the Creek War.
*The Cherokees helped Jackson. -
Washingtion, D.C. Attacked and Burned
*British ships sailed into Chesapeake Bay and settled in a invasion force 30 miles away from Washington D.C.
*American troops met with them, and battle began.
*President Madison watched the whole battle.
*British troops marched into the capital.
*Dolly Madison (first lady) went to the south so she wasn't there to see the British burn down the White House. -
Attack on Baltimore
*The British went to Fort Mechenry .(the fort defended the city's harbor)
*They bombared the Fort.
*They wanted to have defense on Fort McHenry.
*The British withdrew the battle when they saw the American Flag.
*Francis Scott Key witenedded the Battle he later wrote a song about it called "The Star Spangled banner". -
Writing of the Star Spangled Banner
*Francis Scott Key witnedded the Battle on Baltimore.
*He wrote a poem about it.
*The poem was set to music.
*It adopted as a national anthem.
*This national anthem is for the United States. -
Hartford Convention
*Delegates from New England went to Hartford,Connecticut.
*They disliked their Republican President.
*There was a war there, it was called the Hartford Convention.
*The delegates threatenend to leave if the war continued.
*The peace treaty arrived and then the war ended. -
Treaty of Ghent
*Two sides signed treaty.
*The treaty helped turn things back the way it was before the war.
*Several weeks for the news of the treaty to get to the US.
*Two sides fought another battle .
*Andrew Jackson won over the British. -
Battle of New Orleans
*British prepared Attack
*They wanted to sail up the Mississippi
*Andrew Jackson was going to attack Bristish
*American soldiers had dug trenches
*Americans won the Battle
