The War of 1812 The StarSpangled Banner

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The War of 1812The Star-Spangled Banner

• Pages 414-427
• Workbook pg. 75

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Lets Go West!

• After the Lewis and Clark Expedition, many
  Americans wanted to settle in the new western
  lands.
• American Indians still fought with American
  pioneers, trying to turn them back.

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Remember the British?

• In the Northwest Territory, the British helped
  the Indians by selling them guns.
• Before long, trouble in the Northwest Territory
  helped push the U.S. into a second war with
  Britain.

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Tecumseh Indian Leader

• Tecumseh, an Indian leader, warned the U.S. that
  the Indians would fight if they were made to give
  up more of their land.
• Tecumseh would not let the Indians fight unless
  they were attacked first.

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Battle of Tippecanoe

• Fearing an attack from the Americans, the Indians
  did attack first.
• During the Battle of Tippecanoe, neither side
  clearly won the battle. The Americans destroyed
  the Indian village.
• Indians throughout the Northwest continued
  attacking settlers hoping they would return east.

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Blame the British!

• Many people blamed the Indian attacks on the
  British.
• Many thought the answer was simple. Take over
  Canada and drive the British out of North
  America.
• The British were also stopping American trade
  ships from traveling to Europe.
• War fever spread across the states.

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War Declared!

• Congress voted to declare war on Britain in June
  of 1812.
• James Madison was President during the War of
  1812.

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Washington Attacked!

• The British attacked the city of Washington, D.C.
  in August 1814.
• The British set fire to the White House, the
  Capitol, and other buildings.

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Dolley Madison

• Dolley Madison saved a full-length portrait of
  George Washington and other valuable items from
  the Presidents Mansion.

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Battle at Fort McHenry

• Fort McHenry, a star shaped fort, in Baltimore,
  flew a flag with 15 stars and 15 stripes.
• The British bombed the fort for hours but the
  Americans refused to surrender.
• Francis Scott Key, a poet, was taken prisoner by
  the British during the battle.
• He watched the battle from a British ship.

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The Flag in 1812
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The Star-Spangled Banner

• By dawn, Francis Scott Key began looking to see
  which flag was flying above the fort.
• He saw the Stars and Stripes !
• He wrote the poem the Star-Spangled Banner to
  record what he saw during the battle.
• Later, the poem became our National Anthem.

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The Star-Spangled Banner

• Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
  What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last
  gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
  through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we
  watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the
  rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
  Gave proof through the night that our flag was
  still there. O say, does that star-spangled
  banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and
  the home of the brave?

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Who Won the War?

• Neither side was clearly the winner in the War of
  1812.
• On December 24, 1814 the British and the
  Americans signed a peace treaty in Europe
  officially ending the war.
• A wave of nationalism, or pride in the country,
  swept the nation.
• America proved itself equal to a great European
  nation.

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The Monroe Doctrine

• James Monroe was now the 5th President of the
  United States.
• The Monroe Doctrine, was a government plan of
  action.
• The doctrine declared that the United States was
  willing to go to war to stop European countries
  from expanding their American empires.