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CAUSES

• The Embargo Act of 1807.
• Macon's Bill No. 2
• Napoleon tricked J. Madison into reimposing (1811) nonintercourse on England
• British trade restrictions
• Impressment of US Navy

MAP OF BATTLES

STAR SPANGLED BANNER

• Made in Baltimore, Maryland, in July-August 1813 by Mary Pickersgil
• Original size: 30 feet by 42 feet Current size: 30 feet by 34 feet
• Francis Scott Key composed SSB September 14, 1814
• The SSB, our official national anthem, was put into law by Herbert Hoover on March 3, 1931.

WAR HAWKS

• The War Hawks were a coterie of about twenty Democratic Republicans
• The War Hawks were fed up with plodding diplomatic tactics.
• From November 1811 to June 1812, they argued for war and the requisite financial/military preparations.
• The War Hawks persuaded Congress into supporting a declaration of war against Britain.
• John Randolph, Henry Clay, John Calhoun were among important members

POLITICAL CARTOON
This political cartoon from the War of 1812 attacks the British policy of paying bounties to Indian allies for enemy scalps.

ATTACK OF THE WASHINGTON

• The Burning of Washington in 1814 was an attack during the between British and United States
• Major General Robert Ross occupied Washington City and set fire to many public/government buildings
• After torching the Capitol, the troops turned northwest up PA Avenue toward the White House

EFFECTS

• Increased American patriotism
• Weakened Native Americans resistance
• U.S. manufacturing grew

Tecumseh was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy (known as Tecumseh's Confederacy) which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and became an ally of Britain in the War of 1812.

Oliver Hazard Perry was a United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

During the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson was appointed a Major General and sent to New Orleans to prepare the city's defenses against an impending British attack. His army of Tennessee and Kentucky volunteers defeated an invading British force of 7500 men and forced the British to withdraw from the region.

William Hull is most famous for his surrender to the British at Fort Detroit at the outset of the War of 1812, and barely missing the hangman’s noose for his actions in 1814.