The War of 1812

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The War of 1812

• The 2nd War for Independence

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Vocab

• Impressment seizing of American sailors at sea
  and drafting them into the British Navy
• Embargo a ban on exports to other countries

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Causes of the War (General)

• British Blockade Europe
• Seize American ships
• Impress U.S. citizens
• Tecumseh Forms N.A. Confederacy

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Jeffersons Blunders

• Had reduced Army Navy
• Embargo Act (1807) harms U.S. economy more than
  Europe

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Causes (Events)

• Battle of Tippecanoe
• U.S. Army destroys Shawnee village
• Take heavy losses
• Shawnee Supplied by British
• Chesapeake Incident
• British fire on U.S. Navy Ship

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                                   The major
battles of the War of 1812
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Notable Events of the War

• Death of Tecumseh (1813)
• U.S. Navy takes Lake Erie (1813)
• British raids along Atlantic Coast (1813-14)
• British burn down Washington D.C. (1814)
• Battle of New Orleans (Andrew Jackson) (1814)

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Results of the War

• Treaty of Ghent leaves issues unresolved
• Butmost differences soon resolved between U.S.
  and Britain

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Effects on U.S.

• National Unity Pride
• Hastens decline of Federalist Party
• Begins Era of Good Feelings