WAR of 1812

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WAR of 1812
United States vs. Great Britain
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Create a Flow Map of the War of 1812
Impressment
Weapons supplying
Embargo Act
War Hawks
Battle of Lake Erie
British invade D.C
Star Spangled Banner
Battle of New Orleans
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Impact of the War
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Causes for WAR
After 30 years of independence, the United States
found themselves drawn into a second war with
Great Britain. How did this happen?????

• British ships were stopping American ships and
  impressing (seizing) U.S. sailors and supplies,
  claiming that many were deserters from the
  British Navy. One such event was the Chesapeake
  Affair in 1807.
• The British in Canada were also supplying weapons
  to Native Americans in the Ohio River valley,
  encouraging them to attack American settlers.

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Embargo Act of 1807

• President Jefferson decided against war, but
  wanted to use trade as a weapon to avoid
  bloodshed.
• Jefferson and Congress passed the Embargo Act of
  1807.
• 1. American ships were not allowed to sail or
  trade in foreign ports.
• 2. It also closed American ports to the British
  ships
• Jeffersons policy was a disaster. It was more
  harmful to the U.S. than to the British or
  French. One New Englander said the embargo act
  was like cutting ones throat to cure a
  nosebleed.

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WAR HAWKS
James Madison becomes President in 1809 with the
support of a group of young Congressmen from the
south and west (Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun)
known as the War Hawks. The War Hawks wanted the
British to stop all seizing of U.S. ships and to
stop aiding the Native Americans. They also had
ideas of conquering Canada and creating a vast
new American empire. Urged by the War Hawks,
Congress declared war on Great Britain on June
18, 1812.
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From 1812-1814 Britain paid little attention to
the war and try to focus and their war with France
Battle of Lake Erie (1813) U.S. naval commander
Oliver Hazard Perry defeated the British force at
the Battle of Lake Erie
WAR BEGINS
                                                  
    
United States forces tried to capture Lower
Canada (1812-1813) but failed due to inexperience.
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
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British Invade Washington D. C.
In 1814, the British invaded the United States.
August 1814, British troops captured Washington
D.C. burning down the White House and many
Federal buildings.
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Dolly's Great Escape
As the British burn the city and march towards
the White House, Dolly Madison saves many
important national artifacts minutes before the
British arrive and destroy the White House
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Star Spangled Banner
At the Battle of Fort McHenry, near Baltimore,
Francis Scott Key watched the all night British
bombardment.
At dawn he noticed the US flag was still there!!!
Key expressed his pride in a poem that later
became the US National Anthem
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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
thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we
watched were so gallantly streaming? And the
rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was
still there. Oh, 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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Battle of New Orleans
In January 1815, the British attacked New
Orleans. An outnumbered U.S. General Andrew
Jackson defeated the British invasion.
However the battle was unnecessary, due to slow
communications the war had ended with the Treaty
of Ghent in December 1814. The Treaty left things
as they were before the war, no new land was
acquired by either side.
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The Impact of the War of 1812

1. Proved Americans could protect their
   independence.
2. Created unity and pride in the U.S.
3. U.S. forced to make their own products
4. U.S. and Great Britain entered a period of peace
   and friendship that still exists today.