Problem
Discuss the War of 1812. Use the lectures on Native Americans and the War of 1812, your textbook, and from American Perspectives, Jefferson Foreign Policy and the War of 1812 and James Madison's Second Inaugural Address
Your thesis should include both the Native American part of the war and the "white people" part of the war.
How did the Napoleonic wars in Europe impact the US? Blockade, impressment, the Chesapeake?
• Embargo Act, include info from the article on Jefferson foreign policy
• James Madison's policy, Macon's Bill No. 2, make sure to include info from his inaugural address
• War Hawks
• the war in Canada,
• in the Great Lakes area,
• Burning of DC,
• Ft. McHenry
• Battle of New Orleans,
• Treaty of Ghent.
What happened to the Federalist Party after the war?
Native American conflict:
• Tecumseh, Tenskwatawa, Prophetstown, William Henry Harrison
• Sauk
• Black Hawk
• Ft. Detroit
• Battle of the Thames
• Red Stick Creek
• Benjamin Hawkins, assimilation
• Battle of Burnt Corn, Ft. Mims
• Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Jackson (and Jackson into Florida)
• Treaty of Ft. Jackson
What did the US hope to gain from this war and what did the British want?
Why was the Native American part of the war so important? Especially for cotton land in places like Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi.