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New members in Congress- Henry ClayKY and John C. Calhoun- SC
War Hawks- push Britain out of North
America
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• 1812- Madison declare war against Britain
• British- impressment- act- forcing people into
military service
• War of 1812
• Against the British and Native Americans
• British- victorious- summer of 1812
• US victories- William Henry Harrison and Andrew
Jackson
• Treaty of Fort Jackson- give up AL and GA
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US victorious at sea
Constitution- “Old Ironsides”
The Wasp and the United States- raises morale
US ship Chesapeake captured
“Don’t give up the ship”- US Navy battle cry
Lake Erie- US wins- Oliver Hazard Perry
British blockade the US coast
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• 1814- British and French stop fighting- Napoleon
Bonaparte
• Late summer- British try to invade from Canada
• Driven back across the border
• Chesapeake Bay area- British successful
• Capitol and White House gutted by flames
• Move- Baltimore
• Francis Scott Key- Fort McHenry
• Star-spangled banner
• “Mr. Madison’s War”
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Hartford, CT- leaving the nation?
December 24, 1814- Treaty of Ghent- Belgium
Ended the war
“Second War of Independence”
US- 2 weeks after the war ended
Battle of New Orleans
US wins
Restoring patriotism, unifying the country, and
Andrew Jackson a national hero
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• James Monroe now president
• Second Bank of the US created
• Panic of 1819- depression- severe economic
downturn
• Missouri Compromise
• Slavery?
• NW Ordinance of 1787- no slavery
• 11 free states and 11 slave states
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James Tallmadge- NY
End to slavery in Missouri
The bill failed
Congress- Henry Clay
Missouri- slave state
Maine- free state
12 slave states and 12 free states
North- 36 degrees 30 minutes N- free