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Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality
President George Washington issued a Neutrality Proclamation to define the policy of the United States in response to the spreading war in Europe. The Neutrality Proclamation warned Americans that federal government would prosecute any violations of this policy by its citizens, and would not protect them should they be tried a belligerent nation. -
Jay Treaty
Representatives of the United States and Great Britain signed Jay's Treat to try and settle outstanding issues between the two countries that had left unresolved since American independence. The American public were not fond of this. it also did not accomplish the goal of maintaining peace between the two nations and preserving U.S neutrality. -
Washington's Farewell Address
After deciding not to seek reelection for a third term George Washington drafted his farewell address to the American people.He urged Americans to avoid excessive political party spirit and geographical distinctions. with foreign affairs he warned against long term alliances with other nations. he advised American citizens to view themselves as a cohesive unit and avoid political parties. -
War Hawks
A group of Republican Congressmen who at the end of the first decade of the 1800s demanded the US declare war against Great Britain, invade British Canada and expel the Spanish fro Florida. In June of 1812 the war Hawks got what they wanted known as the war of 1812. -
Chesapeake
USS Chesapeake was an original six frigates constructed for the US Navy.the ship carried 38 guns and saw service during the with Quasi War with France and the campaign against the Barbary pirates attacked in 1807 by HMS Leopard. it was captured b HMS Shannon on June 1 1813. -
Impressment of sailors
Practice of Britain's Royal Navy Involved sending officers to board American ships, inspect the crew and seize sailors accused of being deserters from British ships.Seen as a cause of War of 1812.But was no always seen as a problem. done because of severe discipline and miserable conditions endured by seamen in Royal Navy. British deserters found work on American merchants ships. -
Embargo Act 1807
Thomas Jefferson's attempt to resist British and French molestation of US merchant ships from carrying raw materials to Europeans during Napoleonic War. -
Leopard Affair
engagement between the British warship, the HMS, Leopard, and the American frigate, the USS Chesapeake. British HMS Leopard ship confronted the American Chesapeake ship in search of the four of its members who had deserted the Royal Navy they were removed from the Chesapeake ship and tried for desertion. One of the four crew members were hanged. -
Tecumseh
A skilled Shawnee warrior and charismatic orator believed that a pan- Indian federation could stop or slow the pace of American westward expansion. He fought against British and had a multi-tribe rebellion against white settlement. -
War of 1812
President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Great Britain marking the beginning of the War of 1812. The US were frustrated at Great Britain because of their maritime practice and support of Native American resistance to western expansion, the US entered a war with plans to conquer Canada. They never conquer this goal -
Hartford Convention
A secret meeting in Hartford Connecticut with Federalist delegates from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont who were dissatisfied with President James Madison's mercantile policies and the progress of the War of 1812. -
Battle of New Orleans
Great Britain and the United States signed a treaty in Ghent, Belgium that ended the War of 1812 January 08, 1815. In the Battle of New Orleans President Andrew Jackson and militia fighters, frontiersmen, slaves, Indians, and pirates weathered a frontal assault by a superior British force, inflicting devastating casualties along the way. The victory helped foil plans for a British invasion of the American. -
Treaty of Ghent
Signed by British and American representatives at Ghent, Belgium ending the War of 1812. All the territory they conquered had to be returned and commissions were planned to settle the boundary of the United States and Canada.