James Madison and the War of 1812

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James Madison and the War of 1812
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Native American Resistance

• Little Turtle led a group of Native Americans
  against the American settlers, with help from
  British Troops
• General Mad Anthony Wayne leads Legion of the
  United States against the natives
• Battle of Fallen Timbers, Wayne defeats natives
• Treaty of Greenville (1795) forces Native
  Americans to withdrawal from most of the Ohio
  River Valley

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Native American Reactions

• Accepting White Culture
• Assimilation
• Blending Indian and American Cultures
• Return to Indian Traditions
• Take Military Action
• Tecumseh (pictured here)
• Battle of Tippecanoe

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Reasons for the War of 1812

• War Hawks
• John C. Calhoun (S.C.) Henry Clay (KY)
• Wanted to move west and get rid of Indians
• Want war with British Canada since British
  supplied Indians

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Madison Administration

• Argues for war with British
• British impressments
• British supplying Indians
• British control of U.S. trade
• War approved in 1812
• America not prepared for war

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War of 1812

• Failed invasion of Canada
• Naval War
• Victories despite outnumbered (U.S.S.
  Constitution)
• Chesapeake captured (Dont give up the ship)
• Perrys victories on the Great Lakes
• Burning of Washington, D.C.
• British fail to advance troops from Canada
• British troops burn Washington
• Advance on Baltimore
• Baltimore holds off advance
• Francis Scott Key watches attack on Fort McHenry
• Wrote The Star-Spangled Banner

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Treaty of Ghent

• Hartford Convention
• New Englanders want to break away from the nation
• Disliked Mr. Madisons War
• Treaty of Ghent
• Neither side wanted the war
• Met in 1814 in Belgium and settled war
• All boundaries kept the same (or at least more
  defined)

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The Battle of New Orleans

• Greatest American victory comes two weeks after
  the war is over
• General Andrew Jackson and 4,500 Americans
  defended New Orleans from 11,000 British troops
• British suffer over 2,000 casualties, the
  Americans 21
• Andrew (Old Hickory) Jackson becomes a national
  hero

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Post War Boom and Panic

• Economic growth after the War (Era of Good
  Feelings)
• James Monroe
• National Republican
• Wins election of 1816
• Created the Second Bank of the U.S. (1816)
• Abundant credit for moving west and trade with
  England

• Panic of 1819
• London banks began to demand money back form U.S.
  loans
• U.S.s first great depression