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Essential Question. How did the event during the War of 1812 shape national identity?. Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the answer. Intro 10. M/C 1-1. Election of 1808. James Madison (Republican). Charles Pinckney (Federalist). Madison assumed office

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  1. Essential Question How did the event during the War of 1812 shape national identity?

  2. Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the answer.

  3. Intro 10

  4. M/C 1-1

  5. Election of 1808 James Madison (Republican) Charles Pinckney (Federalist) Madison assumed office in the midst of an international crisis

  6. Madison wanted to avoid war. Non-Intercourse Act: forbade trade with France & Britain while authorizing the president to reopen trade with whichever country removed its trade restrictions first. War Hawks Supported war with Britain • Felix Grundy (TN) • Henry Clay (KY) • John Calhoun (SC)

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  8. Why Did Southerners and Westerners Support War? • British trade restrictions hurt farmers • Westerners blamed British for supporting Native American uprisings

  9. Moving West Kentucky Tennessee Northwest Territory

  10. Treaty of Greenville August 1795 Indians gave up land in Ohio, Indiana, parts of Illinois and Michigan In 1795, 12 Native American nations signed the Treaty of Greenville. The Native Americans gave up parts of what later became Ohio and Indiana in exchange for a yearly payment of $10,000 from the federal government. As a result of the treaty, even more settlers moved into the region.

  11. Tecumseh • Shawnee leader • Believed Native Americans needed to unite to protect their lands

  12. William Henry Harrison • Governor of Indiana territory • Won at the Battle of Tippecanoe • Indian leaders fled to Canada

  13. Declaration of War • June 1812 • President Madison asked Congress to declare war against Great Britain

  14. Quote, Madison “Thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard of public law and of their national flag, have been torn from . . . Everything dear to them; have been dragged on board ships of a foreign nation to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes to risk their lives in battles of their oppressors.”

  15. Invasion of Canada • Attacked from Detroit, Niagara Falls, Hudson River Valley • All failed

  16. Oliver Hazard Perrysecretly arranged for the construction of afleet on the coast of Lake Erie. • Leader of Lake Erie Fleet • Defeated the British • Control for U.S. of Great Lakes

  17. Washington D.C. • August 1814 • British fleet entered the city

  18. Washington D.C. • Madison and other leaders fled • British set fire to the White House and the Capitol • Dolly Madison saved important papers

  19. Fort McHenry • British marched on Baltimore • Attacked Fort McHenry • Not successful Nationalism sparked

  20. Fort McHenry & The Star Spangle Banner

  21. Francis Scott Key • He wrote The Star-Spangled Banner while watching this battle

  22. Battle of Lake ChamplainThe same month, 15,000 British soldiers moved into New York. Their intend was to control Lake Champlain. • September 11, 1814 • U.S. Victory • Britain retreats!!! Nationalism growing

  23. Battle of New Orleans • January 1815 • British landed with 7,500 at New Orleans • Victory for U.S. forces under Andrew Jackson (cotton bales) Nationalism blowing up

  24. War of 1812

  25. Treaty of GhentOn December 24, 1814, in the European city of Ghent, negotiators signed the Treaty ofGhent, ending the war of 1812. • Dec. 1814 • Ended the War of 1812 • England must honor U.S. boundaries

  26. Convention of 1818U.S.-Canadian border from Minnesota to the Rocky Mountains set at 490N latitude

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