war of 1812

war of 1812

Period: Mar 1, 1809 to Jan 31, 1815

President Madison takes office.

Mar 4, 1809

1. Americans were angry at Britain for arming the Native Americans in the Northwest.
2. James Madison was a quiet, scharlor man.
3. James Madison helped write the Bill of RIghts and helped to pass the Constitution.
4. James Madison hoped to keep the United States out of war.

War hawks take power

Mar 1, 1810

1 Opposistion to war was strongest in New England.
2 Many New Englanders believed war with Britian would harm the American trade.
3 Members of congress from the south and the west called for war with Britian.
4 The War Hawk indians had a strong sense of Nationalism.
5. The War Hawks felt that Britain was treating the US as if they were still a British Colony.

Relations with Great Britian worsen

Feb 2, 1812

1. The fighting with Native Americans caused the relations between the United States and Britain to worsen.
   
2. Britain encouraged Indians to attack the United States Settlements.
3. United States and Britain continued to disagree over trade
4. The British was suppling guns for the Native Americans.
5. The United States made a very daring offer: If either British troops or France stopped seizing American ships, the United States would halt trade.
   

Congress declares war on Britain.

Jun 18, 1812

1. The House voted 79 to 49 in favor of war.
2. Winning the war woud not be as easy as declaring it.
3. Many Americans welcomed the news of war with Britain. They fired cannons and guns and danced in some cities.
   
4. New Englanders talked negitively of Mr. Madison's war.
5. Some New Englanders would threaten to live the Union and make a separate peace with Britain.
   

Invasion of Canada

Jul 1, 1812

1 General William Hull moved american troops into canada from Detrot
2 The canadians had only a few untrained troops to ward off the invasion
3 But they were led by clever/skillful British leader , General Issac
4

Britian blockades American Ports

Jul 1, 1812

1. Britian navy had one hundred and thirty five warships blocking American ports.
   
2. After reinforcing the troops, the British were able to close off all of the American ports in the end.
3. The first day of the British set up was blocking the American posts.
4. The American army only had sixteen war ships and seven thousand men.
   
5. The United States was not prepared for this war.
   

American is not ready for war!

Jul 18, 1812

1, The navy had only sixteen ships to flght and that was not enough.
2. The army was small and was ill-equipped.

3. Many of the officers new little about the Military.
4. Since there were few regular troops to fight, the government relied on volunteers to fight which would be bad because they would not be experienced.

5. Jefferson believed in a small federal government and had reduced spending on defenses.

USS Constitution Scores a Victory.

Aug 1, 1812

1. This was a major sea battle that was fought at the beginning of the war.
2. The USS constitution defeated the British warships in a fierce battle.
3. American saliors nicknamed the constitiution "old Ironsides".
4. They named it "old ironsides” because British artillery that was fired landed on the ship's thick wooden hull.
   
5. To the Americans, it seemed as if the constitution were made of Iron.

Battle of Lake Erie

Sep 10, 1813

1. Perry took his flag down and rowed over to another American ship.
2. There he raised his colors again and began to fight.
3. In the end the Americans won the battle.
4. Captain Perry wrote his message of victory on a back of an envelope: "We have met the enemy and they are ours".
   

battle of thames

Oct 5, 1813

1 the u.s. victory was over british and indian forces in ontairio,canada
2 the united states had controle over the northwest
3 it was fought on canadian soil
4 american forces failed not only in the northwest but also on other forts
5 the prim objective of president james madison was to invade the upper canadans

Horseshoe Bend

Mar 27, 1814

1. In 1814, with the help of the Cherokees, Jackson won a crushing victory.
   
2. The leader of the Creeks walked alone into Jackson's camp to surrender.
3. He said, "If I had an army I would yet fight and contend to the last... but your people have destroyed my nation".
   
4. For the time being, the fighting ended.
5. Once again Native Americans had to give up land to the Whites.

Washington , D.C. attcked and burrned

Aug 1, 1814

1 The British burned down the white house and many of Washngton's buldings
2 The thunder storm put most of the fire out
3 President Madison himself watched the batle
4 In the summer of 1814, British ships sailed into chesapeake bay
5 They landed an invasion force about 30 miles from Washington, D.C.

Attack Baltimore

Sep 12, 1814

1 Britishs first objective was fort Mchenry
2 British warships bombarded the fort through thr night
3Francis Scott key , a yong american watched the attack
4 At dawn, Key saw the american flag still flying over the fort
5 The American suprisingly beat off the attack

writing the star spangled banner

Sep 13, 1814

1 On an old envelope key wrote a poem
2 It told a story of that night
3 The poem became popular and was turend into a song after
4In 1931, congress made it the national anthem
5 We sing it today at special events mostly

Hartford convention

Dec 15, 1814

1 Some delegates from the hartford covention suggested that new England states secede, or withdraw from the u.s
2 With the war over, the Hartford convention quickly ended
3 New Englanders normally did not like war.

4 A group of federalists met in Hartford Connecticut.
5 While the delegates debated, news of the peace treatie arrived.

Treaty of Ghent

Dec 24, 1814

1. The Treaty of Ghent was signed in the city of Ghent, Belgiun.
2. John Quincy Adams summed up the treaty in one sentence. "Nothing was adjusted, nothing was settled".
3. Britian and the United States agreed to establish pre-war conditions.
   
4. The treaty said nothing about impressment or neutrality.
5. These issues had faded due to the end of the Napoleonic wars in Europe.
   

Battle of new orleans

Jan 8, 1815

1 However jackson was waiting for the british, jackson had turned his fighters into a strong army
2 Jackson and his army marched though mobile and set up camp in New Orleans
3 Among the volunters fighters many african americans foght to
4 The British finally attacked marching toward the american trenches