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President Madison takes office
Where: United States
Who: James Madison
Impact: Americans angry at Britain for arming Native Americans in the Northwest -
War Hawks Take Power
Where: House of Represntatives Congress
Who: John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay
Impact: Eager for war with Britain
Felt a sense of American nationalism or pride in one's country -
Relations with Great Britain Worsen
Where: United States
Who: British told the U.S. they would continue impressing sailors.
Native Americans in the Northwest began new attacks on the fronteir settlements.
Impact: Americans angry with Britain -
Congress Declares War with Great Britain
Where: Congress
Who: Congress
Imapct: British impressing sailors
Native Americans continue to attack fronteir settlements -
America is Not Ready for War
Where: United States
Who: Thomas Jefferson (spending cuts had weakened American military strength)
Impact: Weakened military strength
Navy had only 16 warships
The army was also small -
Britain Blockades American Ports
Where: Amerian ports
Who: British, America
Impact: British navy had 135 warships blockading American ports -
Invasion of Canada
Where: Canada
Who: American troops- General William Hull
British General Isaac Brock
Impact: 2,000 American soliders were serious
Serious defeat for U.S. -
USS Constitution Scores a Victory
Where: North America
Who: United States
Britain
Imapct: USS Constiution defeated the British warships, Guerriere -
Battle of Lake Erie
Where: Lake Erie Putin Bay
Who: United States
Impact: We have met the enemy and they are ours! Britain forced to leave Detroit -
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
Where: Georgia
Who: Americans/ Andrew Jackson
Creeks
Impact: Creeks had to give up millions of acres of land -
Washigton D.C. Attacked and Burned
Where: Nation's capital, Washigton D.C.
Who: United States, Britain
Impact: British set fire to several government buildings, including the white house -
Writing of the Star Spangled Banner
Where: Washigton D.C. house
Who: America, British
Impact: Americans defeat British at Fort McHenry
National Anthem created by Francis Scott Key -
Hartford Convention
Where: Hartford, Connecticut
Who: United States, Britain
Impact: Independence from Britain -
Treaty of Ghent
Where: Ghent, Belgium
Who: United States, Britain
Impact: U.S. offically independent
Allowed to be independent
Treaty of Ghent signed ended war -
Battle of New Orleans
Where: New Orleans, Louisiana
Who: United States, Andrew Jackson
Britain
Impact: Andrew Jackson won a stunning victory over the British
