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Congress Replacing the Embargo Act with the Nonintercourse Act
The Nonintercourse Act was aimed at Britian and France to resume trade with whichever of the countries lifted their restrictions on american shipping. -
Congress going a bit further
Marcons Bill no.2Macon's Bill no.2 allowed the us to trade with france and britian but also said that if either country recognized americas neutrality then the us would resume trade sanctions with the other country. -
Burning Prophetstown
Indians were angered by the us government's repeated attempt to take their land. The two brothers Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh went to seek allies in the south, while Governer William Harry burned down their home which was prophetstown. -
War Hawks wanting war
More on war hawks The War Hawks represented farmers and settlers. They wanted to go to war with britian so they could invade canada to deprive indians of there main source of weapons. -
British Seize "American" Sailors
Marine PreludeThe American soldiers were captured by the British Navy. They were forced into servitude. Some of the americans were actually british impersonating american to work on their ships. American citizenship was very vauge. Many people would show citizenship with tattoos of eagles and flags. -
Congress Declares War on Britian
The nation was divided by this. Disunited, unprepared the united states went to war against the world's greatest army. The american army faced many loses when they tried to invade Canada to gain soldiers to face the British. -
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War of 1812
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American's army vs great britian's army
The us army was outnumbered 10 to 12,000. It also doesn't help that most of our troops were alchoholics. The us navy had 17 ships while the british had 1000. The british also had more money because they collected 40x more tax then we did. The british were too busy with napolean however to care to much about us. They didn't start kicking our buts till 1814 when napolean was defeated. -
The American Navy
More on americas shipsTo the suprise of both the British and many americans, the american navy performed suprisingly well. AMerican ships defeated a british flotilla, this allowed William Henry and his army to retake detroit. -
Britian Invades
Thousands of Soldiers were freed up to fight when Britian defeated Napolean. The navy blocked the coast while soldiers invaded the united states. The took one army took Maine while another army came from the north and invaded New York. A third army marsched on D.C. and a fourth invaded from the gulf. -
Treaty of Ghent
The Actual DocumentThe americans failed to conquer canada, while the british failed to invade america sucessfully. The illusion is that Jackson had forced the British into a treaty. -
The Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New OrleansThe Americans sufferered only 71 casualties while the British suffered 2,036 casualties. This was bad because this was after the americans and british signed The Treaty of Ghent. The Americans took the greatest victory they had in the war. -
Indian Land Becomes States
After the war most of the indian population resided east of the mississippi. As result millions of acres of land became deserted, so the U.S. settlers made settlements which later turned into states like Indiana, Illinois, and Alabama.
