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The War of 1812
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President Madison Takes Office
Tension with Britian was high when James Madison took office. Americans were angry at Britian for arming Native Americans in the Northwest. Americans also resented the continued impressment of american sailors by the British. -
War Hawks Take Power
The War hawks took power opposition to war was stromgest in New England. Many Englanders believed war with Britian would harm American trade. So they they took power and wanted to start war with the Americans. So then the Americans would have trouble with trade. -
Relations with Great Britin Worsen
The relationships with Britian worsened steadily in the early months of 1812. In the spring the British told the United States they would continue impressing sailors. Native Ameicans in the Northwest began new attacks on frontier settlements. -
America is not Ready for War
The US was still a new nation. Other than the Indian Wars, the War of 1812 was the US's first war. They did not have a strong Navy and they were tight on money. The New Englanders didn't want to have the war because they didn't want to have more land belonging to the US. They thought that through the war we would gain land and through having all that extra land they would lose power. -
Congress Declares War on Britian
The war was declared as a result of long simmering disputes with Great Britian. The central dispute surrounded the impressment of American soldiers by the British. The British had previously attacked the USS Chesapeake and nearly caused a war two year earlier. In addition, disputes continued with Great Britain over the Northwest Territories and the border with Canada. Finally, the attempts of Great Britain to impose a blockade on France during the Napoleonic Wars was a constant source of conflic -
Invasion of Canada
While Washington was training one army outside Boston, two other American armies were moving north into Canada. Arnold had a terrible journey throughthe Maine woods in winter. His troops were forced to boil candles,bark, and shoe leather for food. -
Britian Blockades American Ports
A blockade is an effort to cut off food, supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force, either in part or totally. A port is a location on a coast or shore containing one or more harbors where ships can dock and transfer people or cargo to or from land. -
USS Constitution Scores a Victory
With this stamp, the Postal Service begins a series commemorating the bicentennial of a war that ultimately helped forge our national identity and gave us our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”The United States declared war on Great Britain on June 18, 1812. -
Second Battle of Sackets Harbor
A British force was transported across Lake Ontario and attempted to capture the town.They repulsed by American regulars and militias. In the ealry weeks of the war that British had seized control of the Great Lakes. They had brought in lots of weapons and they lost some of their weapons too. -
Battle of Lake Erie
The Battle of Lake Erie was fought on September 10,1813 in Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during The War of 1812. Nine vessels of the United States Navy defeated and captured six vessels of Great Britain's Royal Navy. This ensured American control of the lake for the rest of the war, which in turn allowed the Americans to recover Detroit and win the Battle of the Thames to break the Indian confederation of Tecumseh -
Battle of Thames
As the British and their Native Americans allies retreated. They followed the British into Canada defeating them in the Battle of Thames. Tecumseh was one of the ones who had died in the battle. -
Battle of Horsehoe Bend
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend was fought during The War of 1812 in central Alabama. On March 27,1814 United States forces and Indian allies under Colonel Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks. They were a Indian tribe. -
Battle of Fort Oswego
During the early months of 1814 while Lake Ontario was frozen. British and American naval squads had been building two frigates each. With which to contest command of the lake during the coming campaigning season. -
Washington D.C attacked & burned
The new British strategy was to attack the nations capital Washington D.C. In August 1814 a British force marched into the city. The presidents wife gathered up all the important papers and fled to the White House. The British set fire to lots of government buildings, including the White House. -
Battle of Plattsburgh
The Battle Of Plattburgh also know as the Battle Of Lake Champlain. It ended the final invasionog the nothern states during The War of 1812. The Battle took place shortly before the singing of the Treaty of Ghent which ended war. The American victory denied the British negotiators at Ghent leverage to demand any territorial claims against the United States. -
Battle of Balitmore
The Battle of Baltimore was a combined sea and land battle fought between British and American forces during 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 in Baltimore. -
Treaty of Ghent
by 1814 Britian had gotten tired of war so they made the Treaty of Ghent. It began in Ghent,Belgium on Christmas eve 1814. The two sides signed the treaty whicj ended war. The Treaty made this how they were before war had started. News of the treaty took several weeks to get to the United States. When they found out they fought one more battle. -
Hartford Convetion
A meeting was held in Hartford, Connecticut to consider the problems of New England in the War of 1812. Prior to the war New England Federalists had opposed the Embargo Act of 1807 and other government measures. Many of them continued to oppose the government after fighting had begun. -
Battle Of New Orleans
The United States negtaited a treaty with spain and it guranteed that Americans had rights to ship goods. For a time Americans shipped there goods through New Orleans peacefully. Then in 1801 a crisis had developed. Jefferson had discovered that Spain had secretly given New Orleans the rest of Louisinan Territory to France. The French ruler Napoleon Bonaparte had already set out to conquer Europe. Jefferson was worried that France was going to be the dominant and Untied States wouldnt.
