CH.9 Madison

•NON-INTERCOURSE ACT OF 1809 –
Americans could trade with all
nations EXCEPT Britain and France
•MACON’S BILL# 2- U.S. would
trade with either Britain or France
(whichever one agreed to respect
U.S. neutrality at sea)

Multiple Choice

Which act opened trade with everyone EXCEPT France and Great Britain?

• Embargo Act

• Non-Intercourse Act

• Neutrality Proclamation

• Jay's Treaty

•U.S. wanted its rights as
a neutral nation at sea
no more impressment
•Americans wanted
British Canada and
Spanish Florida

NATIVE AMERICAN PROBLEMS
•Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Prophet
attempted to unite all tribes east of the
Mississippi River to fight the U.S.

INDIAN PROBLEMS
•General William Henry Harrison
destroyed this effort at the Battle of

Tippecanoe

•The British provided
limited aid to Tecumseh
so Americans blamed
the British for starting the
rebellion

William Henry Harrison in 60 Seconds
Battle of Tippecanoe

•WAR HAWKS – group of people
who wanted to go to war with
Britain led by Henry Clay of
Kentucky and John C. Calhoun of
South Carolina
•British delay over meeting U.S.
demands over neutrality rights
which led Madison to seek a
declaration of war against Britain

Democratic-Republican
James Madison

Democratic-Republican
DeWitt Clinton

Election of 1812

Congress and U.S. citizens were
divided over going to war
against Great Britain.

GROUPS OPPOSED TO WAR:
•New England merchants
because they were making
profits from the European wars
•Federalists

June 1812, Congress voted to
declare war on Great Britain.

INVASION OF CANADA – 3 part

invasion of Canada by U.S.

forces (British victory)

Battles Won by the British

NORTHERN BATTLES
• 1812 – Ft. Detroit (British victory)
• 1813 – Frenchtown and River

Raisin Massacre (British victory)

• 1813 – York/Toronto (U.S.

victory)

• 1813 – Battle of Thames (U.S.

victory)

Battle of Ft. Detroit

Battle of York

Battle of the Thames

NAVAL BATTLES
•the USS Constitution sunk the British
HMS Guerriere off the coast of
Nova Scotia (U.S. victory)
•U.S. privateers captured numerous
British ships
•Battle of Lake Erie (U.S. victory)
•Battle of Lake Champlain (U.S.
victory)

Battle of Lake Erie

Battle of Lake Champlain

5 Things You Don’t
Know About the USS
Constitution

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CHESAPEAKE CAMPAIGN
•1814 – British marched through
Washington, D.C., setting fire to the
White House, the Capitol, and other
U.S. government buildings
•British tried to capture Baltimore, but
Fort McHenry held out (Francis Scott
Key wrote the “Defence of Fort
M'Henry”during this bombardment)

Battle of Baltimore

Battle of Ft. McHenry Through
Francis Scott Key’s Eyes

Defense of Ft. McHenry

The Burning of Washington D.C.
CBS Video – Burning of Washington D.C.

SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN
•U.S. forces commanded by General
Andrew Jackson
•1814 – U.S. defeated the Creek Nation
(British ally) at the Battle of Horseshoe
Bend
•January 1815 – Battle of New Orleans –
U.S. defeated the British (after the
treaty ending the war had been signed
in Europe)

Andrew Jackson in 60 Seconds

Mail Call 1812 Part 2
Battle of Horseshoe Bend

Song: Battle of New Orleans

200th Anniversary of
Battle of New Orleans

Johnny Cash Version of Song

HARTFORD CONVENTION
(Dec. 15, 1814 - Jan. 5, 1815)
• New England Federalist party

members met at the Hartford
Convention to discuss war
grievances and the possibility
of secession.

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Hartford Convention

TREATY OF GHENT (1815): ended the War
of 1812
•Stopped the fighting
•Returned all conquered territory to
whoever had claimed it before the war
•Recognized the pre-war boundary
between the U.S. and British Canada
•Said nothing about the grievances that
led to the war (neutral rights at sea,
etc.)
Treaty of Ghent

•U.S. gained respect
•U.S. accepted Canada as a
neighbor
•Federalist Party disappeared
because it had been against
the war and its talk about
secession of New England

Blacks During the War of 1812
Military Medicine During the War of 1812

The Canadian Perspective

•Native Americans were forced
to surrender large tracts of land
•More U.S. factories were built
since European goods were
not available during the war

•War heroes like Andrew Jackson
and William Henry Harrison will
be a new generation of

political leaders
•Strong feelings
of American
nationalism
ushered in the Era
of Good Feelings