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Title: 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
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