The War of 1812

By asherzych
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    The War of 1812

  • 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

    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