War of 1812

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    War of 1812

  • President Madison Takes Office

    President Madison Takes Office
    • Madison wanted to keep the U.S out of war.
    • Madisons approach to office was very timid.
    • James Madison argued that the U.S should stand up to the Native Americans.
    • American soldiers said that the cost of war was high.
    • The U.S went to war with the Native Americans.

  • War Hawks Take Power

    War Hawks Take Power
    • The War Hawks wanted to seize Canada.
    • War Hawks are members of Congress that are callef for war with Britian.
    • War hawks are a strong sense of Nationalism.
    • They are willing to fight to defend the Americans rights.
    • War Hawks saw many advantaages at war.

  • Relations With Britian Worsen

    Relations With Britian Worsen
    • Felix Grundy gave a speech about driving Britian out of the country.
    • Gundy hopes that the war with Britian would bring sucsess.
    • Other people that are in congress oppose war.
    • John Randolph told that people might not pay the war taxes

  • Congress Declares War on Britian

    Congress Declares War on Britian
    • President Madison gave into war fever.
    • James Madison declared war on Britian. *The house voted 79 to 49 in favor of war.
    • The senates vote was 19 to 13. *Americans discovered it was not easy to win a war.

  • American Is Not Ready For War

    American Is Not Ready For War
    • The Americans declaration of war took the British by suprise.
    • They were locked in a bitter struggle with Napoleon.
    • Sence Jefferson belived in small government so he didnt spend money on defense so they were unprepared.
    • The army was small and unequiped.
    • Britian and America were near war time.

  • Brititan Blockades American Ports

    Brititan Blockades American Ports
    • The British kept boarding American ships.
    • A brief war broke out in New York Harbor.
    • The Americans had crippled British ships.
    • The Americans left 32 British soldiers dead.
    • Britian and America Were growing closer and closer to war

  • Invasion of Canada

    Invasion of Canada
    • General William Hull led American troops to Canada from Detroit.
    • General Isaac Brock paraded his soldiers in red coats.
    • He let false information fall into the hands of Americans.
    • Other attemps to invade canada had failed.
    • The Canadians fought feircly to defend their teritory.

  • USS Constitution Scores A Victory.

    USS Constitution Scores A Victory.
    • Captin of the Constitution spotted a British ship.
    • The guns of the Constitution roared at the British.
    • American sea captain won other victories at sea.
    • There was holes shot in the sides of the Gurriere.
    • Isaac Hull asked the British Captian if he had shot his flag.

  • Battle Of Lake Erie

    Battle Of Lake Erie
    • Captin Oliver Hazard Perry had no fleet.
    • He desingned and built his own ships.
    • He sailed his tiny fleet againts the British.
    • Perry took his flag down a rowed to anothe American ship.
    • Finally the Americas won the Battle

  • Battle of Thames

    Battle of Thames
    • Tecumseh died in the Battle.
    • The British lost control of Lake Erie.
    • General William Henery Harrison pursued them into Canada.
    • With out Tecumseh's leardership the Native American Confederation soon fell apart.
    • The Americans won this battle.

  • Horsehoe Bend

    Horsehoe Bend
    • Andrew Jackson was a Tennesse officer.
    • The American troops won a crushing battle.
    • The Cherokee Indians helped win the war.
    • The leader of the Creeks walked alone to surrender.
    • The Creeks were fighting the settlers.

  • Wasington D.C Was Attacked And Burned

    Wasington D.C Was Attacked And Burned
    • British landed on invasion force from 30 miles.
    • American troops met the British at the British at Bladensburg. *The British found less resistance the closer they got.
    • Dolley Madison waited for her husband the president to return before she fled.
    • Dolley grabbed her valubles and ran south.

  • Attack on Baltimore

    Attack on Baltimore
    • The key of the British defense was Fort Mchenry.
    • British rockets struck the harbor. *In the Morning and the flag arose the American flag waved at Fort Mchenry.
    • Francis Scott Key wrote a poem of the Battle.
    • Later on the Star Spangled Banner was adopted as the National Antheme.

  • Writing Of The Star Spangled Banner

    • Francis Scott Key who witnessed the battle wrote a poem of it.
    • The Star Spangled Banner was adopted as the National Anthme.
    • When the fog lifted you could see the broad stripes and stars of the flag.

  • Hartford Convention

    Hartford Convention
    • The delegates to the Hartford Convention threatend to leave the Union if war continued.
    • Delegates dislike the Republican president.
    • While the delegates debates what to dowhen the News of the Peace Treaty arrived.
    • Delegates from around New England met.
    • The Hartford Convention had ended quickly.

  • Treaty Of Ghent

    Treaty Of Ghent
    • The treaty was signed in Ghent, Belgium.
    • John Adams summed up the treaty in one sentence.
    • Britian and the U.S agreed to restore pre war conditions.
    • The issues faded in the wars in Europe.
    • The border dispute between the U.S and Canada.

  • Battle of New Orleans

    Battle of New Orleans
    • Jacksons force included thousands of frontiersmen.
    • The American soldiers dug trenches to defend themselves.
    • More than 2,000 British soldiers fell under deadly fire.
    • Only 7 Americans died in this event.
    • All over the U.S people cheered for victory.