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President Madison takes office
Tension with Britian was high when James Madison took office in 1809. American were also angry Britian for arming the Native Americans in the Northwest. Americans also resented the continued impressment or the American sailors by the British. -
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War Hawks take power
Clay and Calhoun, and their supporters were called the War Hawks. The opposition to war was strongest in New England. Alos many new Englanders beleived war with Britian would harm American's trade. -
Relations with Great Britian Worsen
The United States imposed a trade embargo, namely the Embargo Act of 1807, in retaliation for the United Kingdom’s blockade of France, which involved the visit and search of neutral merchantmen, and resulted in the suppression of Franco-United States trade for the duration of the Napoleonic Wars. The Royal Navy also boarded American ships and impressed sailors suspected of being British deserters. -
congress declares war on britian
The United States fought an undeclared naval war with France (1798-1801) and a war with Tripoli (1801-1805) to safeguard these interests. By 1807 the threat to America’s merchant fleet clearly emanated from Great Britain and France then locked in a life-and-death struggle for supremacy in Europe. -
America is not ready for war
The political, economic, and military strength of the Union was much greater than that of the Confederacy. However, the war did last four years. The Confederacy proved itself resilient on many occasions. Throughout the war the tide constantly shifted, and with that so did the political, economic, and military strength of either side. -
Britian Blockades America Ports
When a coastal cities or fortresses were besieged from the landward side, the besiegers would often blockade the seaward side as well. Most recently, blockades have sometimes included cutting off electronic communications by jamming radio signals and severing undersea cables. Israel and its blockade of the Gaza Strip since 2001 has received the most attention as a continuing crisis. -
Invasion of Canada
In British North America (which formed the Dominion of Canada in 1867), the War of 1812 was seen by Loyalists as a victory, as they had successfully defended their borders from an American takeover. The outcome gave Empire-oriented Canadians confidence and, together with the postwar "militia myth" that the civilian militia had been primarily responsible rather than the British regulars, was used to stimulate a new sense of Canadian nationalism -
USS Constitution scores a victory
USS Constitution is a wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy. Named by President George Washington after the Constitution of the United States of America, she is the world's oldest commissioned naval vessel afloat.[Note 1] Launched in 1797, Constitution was one of six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794 and the third constructed. -
Second Battle of Sackets Harbor
The Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor or simply the Battle of Sacket's Harbor, took place on 29 May 1813, during the War of 1812. A British force was transported across Lake Ontario and attempted to capture the town, which was the principal dockyard and base for the American naval squadron on the lake. They were repulsed by American regulars and militia. -
Battle of Lake Erie
The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes called the Battle of Put-in-Bay was fought on September 10,1813 in Lake Erie of the coast of Ohio during the World War of 1812 -
Battle of Thames
The Battle of Thames, also known as the Battle of Moravaintown was a decisive American victory in the war or 1812. It took place on October 5,1813 near present-day Chatham in upper Canada. it resulted in the death of the shawnee cheif Tecumseh, and the destruction of the Native American coalition which he led. -
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
The Battle of Horseshoe Bemd (also known Tohpeka or the Horseshoe) was fought during the War of 1812 in Central Alabama on March 27,1814. United States forces and Indian aliies under colonal Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks. -
Battle of Fort Oswego
The Battle of Fort Oswego was one in a series of early French victories in the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War won in spite of New France's military vulnerability. During the week of August 10, 1756, a force of regulars and Canadian militia under General Montcalm captured and occupied the British fortifications at Fort Oswego, located at the site of present-day Oswego, New York. -
Washington, D.C Attacked & Burned
The Burning of Washington in 1814 was an armed conflict during the War of 1812 between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States of America. On August 24, 1814, led by General Robert Ross, a British force occupied Washington, D.C. and set fire to many public buildings following the American defeat at the Battle of Bladensburg. The facilities of the U.S. government, including the White House and U.S. Capitol, were largely destroyed.[3] The British commander's orders to -
Attack on Baltimore & the Writing of the Star Spangled Banner
The Battle of Baltimore was a combined sea/land battle fought between British and American forces in the War of 1812. It was one of the turning points of the war as American forces repulsed sea and land invasions of the busy port city of Baltimore, Maryland, and killed the commander of the invading British army forces. The defense of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry in the battle inspired Francis Scott Key to compose the poem "Defence of Fort McHenry" which later became the lyrics for "The Star-Spangled -
Battle of Plattsburgh
The Battle of Plattsburgh, also known as the Battle of Lake Champlain, ended the final invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812. A British army under Lieutenant General Sir George Prévost and a naval squadron under Captain George Downie converged on the lakeside town of Plattsburgh, which was defended by American troops under Brigadier General Alexander Macomb and ships commanded by Master Commandant Thomas Macdonough. Downie's squadron attacked shortly after dawn on 11 September 1 -
Treaty of Ghent
Peace talks began in ghent , belgium. On Christmas eve 1814, the two sides signed the Treaty of Ghent. Then that ended war. The Treaty returned things to the way they had been before the war. -
Hartford Convention
The Hardford Convention is when a group of Federalists met in
hardford,Conneticut. Some delegates to the Hardford Convention suggested that the New England states secede. While the delegates debated, news of the peace treaty arrived. -
Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815 and was the final major battle of the War of 1812.American forces, commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson, defeated an invading British Army intent on seizing New Orleans and the vast territory the United States had acquired with the Louisiana Purchase.
