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The War Of 1812
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President Madison Takes Office
-Tension with Britain is high
-American are not happy with Britain giving Native Americans amunition and guns in the northwest
-American sailors impressed by Britain
-Native Americans are not happy with America for taking their land.
-America was in a bad place when madison took office. -
War Hawks Take power
*Seize Canada
*Take Florida from Spain
*End British aid to Native Americans
*Demonstrate strength of the U.S.
*Stop Britain seizure of American ships -
Relations with Great Britain Worsen
*Britain continued to impress sailors
*Britain armed Native Americans
*Native Americans attack frontier settlements
*Congress declared war on Britain
*The war hawks wanted a war with Britain -
Congress declares war on Britian
*June 1812 Congress declares war on Britain
*Britain was at war in Europe when this war started
*Native Americans supported Britain
*America was not ready for war
*Jeffersons spending cut hurt American millitary, navy, and army -
America is not Ready for War
*Jefferson reduced spending plan cut on our navy and army
*The navy only had 16 ships ready to fight
*The army was not prepared
*The officers had little to no knowledge of millitary
*Government had volunteers fighting the war -
Britain Blockades American Ports
*American navy only had 16 ships ready for war
*American only had 7,000 men
*American ports blocked by the British
*Britain had 135 war ships ready
*When the war ended all of Americas ports were blocked -
Invastion of Cananda
*War hawks really wanted to invade Canada
*They thought the Canadians would like to get rid of the British rule
*July 1812 Ganeral William Hull invaded Canada from Detroit
*The British captured 2,000 American soldiers at least
*The battle took place ing Put-In-Bay
*Lasted 3 hours -
USS Constitution Scores a Victory
*Major sea battle
*USS Constitution beats British war ship Guerriere
*The Constitutions nickname was Old Ironsides
*Britian's canons bounced off the sides of the ships thick wooden hull
*The Americans thought as though it was made of iron -
Battle of lake Erie
*American Comander Olivier Harzard Perry
*Americans flag ship was badly damaged
*Britian & America wanted Lake Erie very badly
*Lasted for 3 hours
*Took place in Put-In-Bay -
Battle of the Thames
*Britian backed into Canada
*General William Henery Harrison pursued them
*General William Henery Harrison was a veteran Tippecano
*Americans won the battle
*Tecumshe ally of the British died, he was a big part of the Indian Confederation
*Soon after he died the Confederation fell apart -
Horseshoe Bend
*Creek warrior attackes southern settelments
*Andrew Jackson took the armys from Georgia to help defend the settelments
*Andrew jackson beat the Creeks and won this battle
*The reason we fought this battle was the land the Creeks where on
*They won millions of acres of land when they beat the Creeks -
Washington a D.C Attacked and burrned
*British troops land in Chesapeake bay
*American troops meet British in Bladensburg, Maryland
*Madison himself was there to watch the battle
*British scattered the American troops
*British had no more restance so they burned Washington! -
Attack on Baltimore
*British after attacking Washington went to attack Baltimore
*They wanted to take Fort McHenry
*After the attack the smoke cleared and our flag was still there
*The Americans beat the attack from the British
*Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Banner after this song -
Writing of the Star-Spangled Banner
*Francis Scott Key wrote our anthem
*He worte this song after he saw a battle and when the smoke cleard our falg was still there
*1913 Congress made it the National anthem
*He worte the orignal on an olf envelop
*He wrote it when he was on night watch -
Hartford Convention
*New England states try to withdraw from the United States
*Peace treaty
*War of 1812 or the second War of Independence
*Europiean nations treat America with respect
*Americas confidance grows even higher -
Treaty of Ghent
*The British end the war
*They made a treaty in Ghent, Belgium
*They all signed the treaty
*They signed it on Christmas eve of 1814
*The treaty equalized the friendship between the British and Americans -
Battle of New Orleans
*America did not hear about the treaty in time so they had another battle
*In January 1815 General Andrew Jackson beat the British army in New Orleans
*We did not think that we would win this battle
*This was the last battle of the war
*2,000 British soldiers died
