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Election of 1808
James Madison (Republican)
Charles Pinckney (Federalist)
Madison assumed office in the midst of an international crisis
War Hawks
Supported war with Britain
Felix Grundy (TN) Henry Clay (KY) John Calhoun (SC)
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.
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Why Did Southerners and Westerners Support War?
British trade restrictions hurt farmers
Westerners blamed British for supporting Native American uprisings
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 NativeAmericans gave up parts of what later became Ohio and Indiana in exchange for ayearly payment of $10,000 from the federal government. As a result of the treaty, evenmore settlers moved into the region.
William Henry Harrison
Governor of Indiana territory
Won at the Battle of Tippecanoe
Indian leaders fled to Canada
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.”
Oliver Hazard Perrysecretly arranged for the construction of a
fleet on the coast of Lake Erie. Leader of Lake
Erie Fleet
Defeated the British
Control for U.S. of Great Lakes
Washington D.C.
Madison and other leaders fled
British set fire to the White House and the Capitol
Dolly Madison saved important papers
Francis Scott Key
He wrote The Star-Spangled Banner while watching this battle
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
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
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