WAR OF

1812

Reasons for the War of 1812

The English were impressing American sailors

The were arming Native Americans in the Northwest Territories.

The United States wanted land in Canada

Reasons for the War of 1812

Congress declared the War of 1812 on June 23

Northwest Native Americans

Native American tribes in the Northwest ( Ohio Valley & Michigan) were losing land to American Settlers. Tecumseh organized the Native Americans to fight back. Tecumseh joined the British when the War of 1812 started.

Northwest Native AmericansShawnee Indian chief. As a boy during the Amer. Revolution, Tecumseh participated in combined British and Indian attacks on Americans. In 1794 he fought unsuccessfully against Gen. A. Wayne. He eventually established a confederation made up of members of the Creek and other nations. In 1811 his brother's attack on W. H. Harrison's troops at Tippecanoe ended in defeat. As the War of 1812 approached, Tecumseh assembled his followers under the British banner and captured Detroit. Several lesser successes followed, ending with his death at the Thames River in Ontario, marking the end of Indian resistance in the Old Northwest.

Northwest Native Americans"The way, the only way to stop this evil is for

the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided.

We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets and a grave.

Brothers--My people wish for peace; the red men all wish for peace; but where the white people are, there is no peace for them, except it be on the bosom of our mother.

Where today are the Peoquot? Where today are the Narrangansett,the Mohican, the Pakanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people?

They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun."

Northwest Native Americans

The Shawnee Prophet "Tenskwatawa"

Techumseh

Northwest Native Americans

Fighting in the War of 1812

On the Great Lakes: Oliver Hazard Perry beat the English and took over the lakes. The English burned Buffalo and the Americans burned Toronto

Fighting in the War of 1812

Fighting in the War of 1812

On the Chesapeak Bay: The English sent their navy up the Potomac River to burn Washington and attack Ft. McHenry (Baltimore). They were turned back at Baltimore

Fighting in the War of 1812

Fighting in the War of 1812 Francis Scott Key:

Wrote the Star Spangled Banner (a poem) during the Battle

Fighting in the War of 1812

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through 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?

Fighting in the War of 1812

At New Orleans: The English captured New Orleans and controlled the Mississippi River. Andrew Jackson beat them in the Battle of New Orleans

Fighting in the War of 1812

Fighting in the War of 1812

Fighting in the War of 1812

In 1814 we took a little tripalong with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.We took a little bacon and we took a little beansAnd we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.We fired once more and they began to runnin' ondown the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Fighting in the War of 1812

We looked down the river and we seen the British come.And there must have been a hundred of'em beatin' on the drum.They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring.We stood by our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.We fired once more and they began to runnin'on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Fighting in the War of 1812

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.We fired once more and they began to runnin'on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the bramblesAnd they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'emon down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Fighting in the War of 1812

We fired our cannon til the barrel melted down.So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behindand when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.We fired once more and they began to runnin'on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Fighting in the War of 1812

Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the bramblesand they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.they ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'emon down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Hup 2, 3, 4. Sound off 3, 4.... Hup 2, 3, 4.Sound off 3, 4.... Hup 2, 3, 4

Treaty of Ghent

Negotiated by James Madison in 1814Both sides kept all their territory.The United States earned the respect

of England and the rest of the world r