Download The War of 1812

• Instructions:
• Divide 1 piece of notebook paper
into fourths (four sections)
• This will be your opening paper for
the next four openings
• When it is FULL (4 openings) then
you will turn it in
Opening Today: Look at this painting
and describe it
How do these match up?
Oh, say, can you see, by the
dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the
twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright
stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd,
were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the
bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' 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?
Social Studies 6 WMS
1. Napoleonic Wars
1803-1814 France and Britain at war
1808-1811  Britain impressed (captured
and forced to serve in
military) over
6,000 American
sailors
2. Chesapeake-Leopard “Affair”

June 21, 1807.

Br. Captain fired on
the USS Chesapeake.

3 dead, 18 wounded.

Br. Foreign Office
said it was a mistake.

Jefferson’s Response:
 Forbade Br. ships to dock in American ports.
 Ordered state governors to call up as much as
100,000 militiamen.
3. The Embargo Act (1807)
The “OGRABME” Turtle
4. British recruit Indians
British General Brock Meets with Tecumseh
“War Hawks”
John C. Calhoun [SC]
Henry Clay [KY]
“Mr. Madison’s War!”
American Problems
 The US was unprepared militarily:
 Had a 12-ship navy vs. Britain’s
800 ships.
 Americans disliked a draft 
preferred to enlist in the
disorganized state militias.
 Financially unprepared
Overview
of the
War
of
1812
Battle of Fort McHenry,
1814
The Star Spangled
Banner#11B2CC
Oh Say Can You See
By the Dawn’s Early Light…
-- Francis Scott Key
Treaty of Ghent
December 24, 1814
The Battle of New Orleans, 1815
Effects of War
•“Era of Good Feelings”
•High morale (nationalism)
•Andrew Jackson--war hero