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=__//BOOK PAGES//__= 1The War Of 1812

2 Britian and France didn't get along. They fought in the ocean.

3 Britain and France decided to keep the United States from suppling war supplies.

4 The British Navey forced American sailors off there ship, to fight for them. This was called Impressment.

5 One example of impressment is when the British ship Leopard stopped the US Navey ship Chesapeake. When the captin of the US ship refused to get off, the British opened fire.

6 A Embargo is the banning of trade against Britian. President Jefferson and his Republicans called it the Embargo Act.

7 But people needed to trade with Britian, so the cancled the Embargo.

8 The british gave the Native Americans in the (North West Territory) wepons to help the defeat the United States. The british wanted to controll the west and Canada.

9 A talented Native American from the Shawnee tribe was called Tecumshe. He was a great Native American.

10 Techumseh's dream was to get all the Native American's from the North, South and West. To form one groupe to fight the native Americans

11 In 1811 Tecumesh decided to leave his tribe dor a while. When Harrison (USA) found out, he attacked.

12 Tecumesh was safe, but lost all hope.

13 Warhawks were people who wanted to fight the British. They were strong in the west and the south.

14-16The warhawks tought that Britian was trying to stop the united states from becomming powerful. The oppisions point of view was they wannted to trade with Britian.President Madision gave Congrees a vote for war. THey wanted to go to war so he declaired war.

17 The US Army was nothing caompared to the British Army.

18 The British had a great well trained army.

19 The Privateers was the little Navey of America.

20 They attacked the British ships.

21 One of the first fights in Washington the 2,000 Americans ran.

22 The British made it to the whitehouse (Everyone left) and burnded it down.

23 The British then went to baltimore,they sent a lot of ships. So the Americans purposly sunk there ships in the path of the British ship to get in there way.The Americans set up cannons at FtMchenry to shoot the British. As the people fought at FtMchenry other soldiers fought on ground. A random sniper sot and killed British General Ross. Back at FtMchenry, A person named Francis Scott Key was caught in the middel of the fight. He wrote th Star Spangled Banner.

29 After a whole night of fighting the British finally gave up, the americans celebrated.

30 Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

31 So the war was very big and to me, very necciary., The End.