• Instructions:
• Divide 1 piece of notebook paper into fourths (four sections)
• This will be your opening paper for the next four openings
• When it is FULL (4 openings) then you will turn it in

Opening Today: Look at this painting and describe it

How do these match up?
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' 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?

Social Studies 6 WMS

1. Napoleonic Wars
1803-1814 France and Britain at war
1808-1811  Britain impressed (captured and forced to serve in military) over
6,000 American sailors

2. Chesapeake-Leopard
“Affair”
 June 21, 1807.
 Br. Captain fired on the USS Chesapeake.
 3 dead, 18 wounded.
 Br. Foreign Office said it was a mistake.
 Jefferson’s Response:

Forbade Br. ships to dock in American ports.

Ordered state governors to call up as much as
100,000 militiamen.

3. The Embargo Act (1807)
The “OGRABME” Turtle

4. British recruit Indians
British General Brock Meets with Tecumseh

John C. Calhoun [SC]
Henry Clay [KY]

“Mr. Madison’s War!”

American Problems
 The US was unprepared militarily:
 Had a 12-ship navy vs. Britain’s
800 ships.
 Americans disliked a draft  preferred to enlist in the disorganized state militias.
 Financially unprepared

Overview of the
War of
1812

Battle of Fort McHenry,
1814
The Star Spangled
Banner#11B2CC
Oh Say Can You See
By the Dawn’s Early Light…
-Francis Scott Key

Treaty of Ghent
December 24, 1814

The Battle of New Orleans,
1815

Effects of War
•“Era of Good Feelings”
•High morale (nationalism)
•Andrew Jackson--war hero