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President Madison takes Office
He was a quiet scholarly man.
He hoped to keep the United states out of war.
He helped write the Constitution.
Helped to pass the Bill of Rights.
Needed to stand up to Native Americans. -
War Hawks take Power
The War Hawks are Nationalist.
They still felt that the British was treating the U.S. as a British colony.
Wanted to stop Britsh warships.
Wanted to sieze Canada.
Wanted to end British Native Americans in the west. -
Relations with Great Britian Worsen
Jefferson had the battle fever.
Americans surprized attacked Great Britian.
There was a lot of argueing.
Won additional land.
Wanted to coquer Canada. -
Congress declares war on Britian
British prevented America from trading with France by blockading some American ports such as New Orleans.
Americans left 32 dead or wounded.
A briefe battle broke out between an American Frigate and a British warship. -
Britian Blockades American Ports
The British blockaded American ports with war ships.
Americans were not able to transport guns and food.
Felix Grudy gave a very emotional speech of what he saw in the war.
They were hoping thet war with Britian would achieve more ambitious goals. -
Invasion of Canada.
Canada only had a few untrained troops to ward off the invasion.
General Isaac Brock was a British leader.
They wore red coats to make it seem they were experience soldiers.
Isaac's tactics worked, Hull retreated from Canada.
Canadian's force Americans out. -
USS Constitution Scores a Victory
The British blocked an American port to stop,trading with France and Native Americans.
British captian surrenderd.
The Britishes ship was named Gurriere.
Hull was the American captian. -
Battle of Lake Erie.
Americans went out to win control.
Captian Perry had no fleet to win.
Perry had to build his own ships.
The British destroyed his ship and left him there.
The Americans won the battle of Lake Erie. -
Battle of Thamas
The British battered down Perrys own ship and left it helpless.
He wove the American flag.
He continued fighting.
Perry won the war.
He wrote his victory on the back of an envelope. -
Horseshoe Bend
Andrew Jackson help win the war.
The Cherokees helped win the war.
They made the leader of the Creeks surrender.
Natives had to give up land to the whites.
The Americans won a decisive victory. -
Washington, D.C. Attacked and Burned
British ships landed in Chesapeake Bay.
They had an ivasion force 30 miles away.
President Maddison watched the battle.
Dalley Maddison grabbed the important papers and a potrait of George Washington and fled off.
She headed south seeing the building getting burned. -
America not ready for War.
They spent less time on defense.
They had a small army and only have 16 ships.
Were highly ill equiped.
Were willing to pay $124 and give away 360 acres of land for thier service.
Most of the volenters left in a few months. -
Attack on Bultimore
The British withdrew Francis.
The Star Spangled Banner was set up to music.
British fired rockets at the harbor.
The key to Baltimores defence was Fort Henry.
The British burned down the White House. -
Writing the Stare Spangled Banner.
It was adopted as a national anthem of the United States.
Francis Scott Key winessed the battle and wrote a poem about it.
The American Flag still waved over Fort McHenry.
It was early morning when the flag lifted. -
Treaty of Ghent
It was signed in the city of Ghent, Belgium.
John Quincy Adams, summed up the treaty in one sentence.
U.S. and Britian agread to restore pre war conditions.
Americans agreed that the war of 1812 was a mistake.
Europeans would treat the young republic with more respect. -
Hartford Convention
Delagates threatend to leave the Union if the war continued.
The Convention ended quickly.
The protest was finally over.
The Treaty arrived.
All the protesters were New Englanders. -
Battle of New Orleans.
British wanted to sail up the Mississippi River.
Jackson's force included about athousand frontiers men.
Many of them were expert rifle men.
Hundreds of African Americans were there for war.
They dug trenches and had an extonishing victory.
