Download 6.4 PPT - Lyndhurst Schools

THE WAR OF 1812
Chapter 6
Section 4
THE WAR HAWKS DEMAND WAR
 Jef ferson re-elected 1804
 Napoleon excludes British goods
 British create blockade to stop Napoleon
 Seized more than 1000 American ships
 Americans are angry with British
 Impressment – capturing Americans and forcing them into the navy
 Chesapeake incident
 1807 – British commander demanded to board and search the
Chesapeake, U.S. captain refused, British opened fire killing 3 and injuring
18.
 Embargo Act of 1807 put in place, ended up hurting America
 Ban lifted in 1809 EXCEPT with France and Britain
TECUMSEH’S CONFEDERACY
 William Henry Harrison met
with Native American chiefs to
sign over 3 million acres of
land to U.S. government
 Shawnee Chief Tecumseh did
not like the idea and wanted
to form a confederacy
 Tecumseh began negotiations
with British in case a war
happened
 Traveled throughout west and
south trying to win tribal
followers
THE WAR HAWKS
 November 1811 –
Tecumseh’s brother, the
Prophet, led an attack on
Harrison
 Harrison fought back and
burned Shawnee’s capital to
the ground
 Battle of Tippecanoe
 Found out Shawnee used
British Canadian supplies,
so war hawks call for war
against British
 Led by John C. Calhoun and
Henry Clay
THE WAR BRINGS MIXED RESULTS
 James Madison wins election of 1808, wages war against
Britain in 1812.
 British quickly capture Detroit
 Oliver Hazard Perry then defeat British on Lake Erie and
retake Detroit
 Natives took sides, many choosing British
 Tecumseh died in Battle of the Thames in 1813
THE WAR AT SEA &
BRITISH BURN THE WHITE HOUSE
 U.S. Navy only had 16 ships
 44-gun warships the President, the United States, and the
Constitution
 British enforced blockade of American ships in 1813
 1814 – British raiding and burning towns
 Retaliation for Battle of York where U.S. burned governor’s
mansion and legislative buildings
 British burn the Capitol, the White House, and other buildings
forcing of ficials to flee
THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS
 Andrew Jackson defeated
Native Americans after 6
months at the Battle of
Horseshoe Bend
 Destroyed military power of
Natives
 Jackson defeats British troops
after war is over and kills
hundreds of British
 Treaty of Ghent was signed
without Jackson knowing
 December 24, 1814 declared
an armistice
 1815 – treaty opening up trade
again
 1817 – Rush-Bagot treaty
limited number of warships on
the Great Lakes