War of 1812 Flashcards
- British clamped down on U.S. shipping
- British use “impressment”
- Jefferson is against
- using trading as a weapon
- “peaceable coretion”
trading problems
embargo act of 1807
Jefferson wanting to stay neutral proposed an embargo act at all foreign trade
Tecumseh and Indian Nationalism
Tecumseh, a shawnee chief attempt to unify Indian tribes forced from the Ohio River Valley
Causes for the War of 1812
- impressment
- British soldiers leave British ships to sail on American ships because they are treated better and better pay
- British army supporting Native American residence to white man expansion on their land
effects from the embargo act
- Americans believe seizing more land will end the depression
- United States wants to prove that the victory of the American Revolution was not luck
- Americans demanded respect in the world
The battle of Thames
October 5, 1813, British an Indian forces are defeated by American forces in Canada
The British burn the capital
August 1814, The British army invades. The United States in March is only Washington DC
“The Star Spangled Banner”
Francis Scott Key, he observed that the American flag still flew over the fort and writes a poem called “The Defense of Ft. McHenry” and eventually becomes a song “The Star Spangled Banner”
Treaty of Gent
December 24, 1814, ends the war of 1812
The battle of New Orleans
American forces in New Orleans led by General Andrew Jackson inflicts great casualties on the British army
The impact of the war of 1812
- sense of nationalism
- nation will embark on foreign trade in Begin to trade in the game to go to transportation system in the U.S.
- native Americans resistance will be remade for the Ohio River Valley permanently opening in the Midwest for expansion
European war benefited the United States by
Louisiana purchase
Took over trade interrupted by the war
