Essential Question
What were the causes
and effects of the War of
1812?

The War of 1812
Election of 1808

James Madison
(Republican)

Charles Pinckney
(Federalist)
War Hawks

Supported war with
Britain
Henry Clay (KY)
 John Calhoun (SC)

Why Did Southerners and
Westerners Support War?

British trade restrictions hurt farmers

Westerners blamed British for supporting
Indian uprisings
Moving West

Kentucky

Tennessee

Northwest
Territory
Native American Resistance

Little Turtle – chief
of the Miami people

Washington sent
General Anthony
Wayne

Battle of Fallen
Timbers
Treaty of Greenville

August 1795

Indians gave up
land in Ohio,
Indiana, parts of
Illinois and Michigan
Tecumseh

Shawnee leader

Believed Native
Americans needed
to unite to protect
their lands
William Henry Harrison

Governor of Indiana
territory

Won at the Battle of
Tippecanoe

Indian leaders fled
to Canada
Declaration of War

June 1812

President Madison
asked Congress to
declare war
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.”
Invasion of Canada

Attacked from
Detroit, Niagara
Falls, Hudson River
Valley

All failed
Battles of War of 1812
Oliver Hazard Perry

Leader of Lake Erie
Fleet

Defeated the British

Control for U.S. of
Great Lakes
Washington D.C.

August 1814

British fleet
entered the city
Washington D.C.

Madison and other
leaders fled

British set fire to the
White House and
the Capitol

Dolly Madison saved
important papers
Fort McHenry

British marched
on Baltimore

Attacked Fort
McHenry

Not successful
Francis Scott Key

He wrote The StarSpangled Banner
while watching this
battle
Battle of Lake Champlain

September 1814

U.S. Victory
Battle of New Orleans

January 1815

British landed at
New Orleans

Victory for U.S.
forces under Andrew
Jackson
War of
1812
Treaty of Ghent

Dec. 1814

Ended the War
of 1812

England must
honor U.S.
boundaries
Convention of 1818

U.S.-Canadian
border from
Minnesota to the
Rocky Mountains set
at 49 degrees north
latitude