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The War of 1812
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President Madison takes office
~ He didnt want war
~ He thought that we should stand up to Britain and the Native Americans
~ He helped write the Constitution and helped pass The Bill of Rights
~ Most Americans wanted to go to war with Britain
~ He went to war with the Native Americans -
War Hawks take power
~ They wanted to go to war with Britain
~ They thought that the British weren`t being fair
~ They were members of the Congress from the South and the West
~ The British were arming the Native Americans and they were encouraging them to attack settlers
~ They thought that going to war with the British would create peace -
Relations with Great Britain worsens
~ They disagree over trade
~ The U.S. stoped shipments to Britain
~ The U.S. was neutral
~ The Native Americans and Americans fought
~ The British gave the Native Americans guns and ammo -
Congress Declares War on Britain
~ The house voted 79 to 49 in favor of war
~ The Senate vote was 19 to 13 in favor of war
~ The United States wasn't ready for war against Britain
~ The United States Army was very small
~ The United States Army and Navy were not trained very well -
Battle of lake Erie
~ The United States Captain was Oliver Hazard Perry
~ The United States Captain designed and built all of the ships that he used in all the wars and battles that he was involved in
~ THe British destroyed all of their ships except one
~ The United States defeated the British with the one ship that was left -
Battle of Thames
~ The Americans won the battle
~ They killed Tecumseh
~ The British lost Lake Erie
~ William Henry Harrison was the U.S. General
~ The Indian Confederation fell apart -
Horseshoe Bend
~ Andrew Jackson and the United States Army won the battle
~ The U.S. Army got help from the Cherokees
~ Tecumseh died during the battle
~ The Native Americans gave up their land -
Washington, D.C. Attacked and burned
~ British landed in Chesapeake Bay
~ They started the invasion about 30 miles from Washington, D.C.
~ The British scared alot of the United States Army away
~ The British burned the White House down
~ The British Army marched to Baltimore -
Attack on Baltimore
~ The British marched to Fort McHenry
~ the British bombed the harbor
~ The United States won the battle
~ Francis Scott Key wrote a poem about the battle and now it is called the Star-Spangled Banner -
Writing of the Star-Spangled Banner
~ Francis Scott Key wrote it as a poem
~ It later became a song
~ It is the U.S. national Anthem
~ it was created when the war ended
~It was made after the British and United States war -
Treaty of Ghent
~ The treaty ended the war
~ John Quincy Adams signed it
~ The treaty was made in Ghent, Belgium
~ The United States and Britain agreed to restore prewar conditions
~ Americans thought that the war of 1812 was a mistake -
Battle of New Orleans
~ It could have been avoided but it wasn`t
~ Andrew Jackson had an Army of thousands of frontiersmans
~ The U.S. killed over 2,000 british troops
~ Citizens joined the United States Army to help win the war
~ The British attacked the U.S. first
