War+of+1812+MMR

pg. 1 Great Britain and France were angry with one another. They battled in the ocean.

pg. 2 Britain and France had an idea. They would not let the U.S. give stuff to their enemy.

pg. 3 The British took people for their ships. The Americans did not like it.

pg. 4 The British were mad at the Americans. They tried to force the Americans to help them.

pg. 5 Americans did not like how the British acted. They did not want to trade with them anymore.

pg. 6 Some people told the president to get rid of the paper to not trade with Britain. People still secretly gave stuff to Britain and France.

pg. 7 Britain wanted to help the Indian Nations. They did this to contain the Western Expansion. It would keep them from fighting with U.S.

pg. 8 Tecumseh was a talented Shawnee Chief. He was very good at speaking. He convinced the American Indians to unite against American settlers.

pg. 9 Tecumseh's dream was to go against American settlers by uniting all of the American Indians. Him and his brother began to do this.

pg. 10 Tecumseh left his people to ask the Creek Nation to help him and his forces. Harrison of the U.S. Army attacked Tecumseh's people while Tecumseh was gone.

pg. 11 The Indian warriors were forced to retreat. Harrison's soldiers then destroyed Tecumseh's village. Tecumseh's dream had lost hope.

pg. 12 War-Hawks were members of the congress. They thought only war was an to how the British acted. They also thought our nation would be able to grow from this.

pg. 13 The opposition to the War- Hawks were the Federalists. They just want to be friends with Britain. They thought the British were too powerful to fight.

pg. 14 President James Madison faced many problems in 1812. He said Britain was in " a state of war against the U.S." The votes showed they would go to war.

pg.15 The U.S. was outnumbered by a lot, but had some edge in the start of the war.

pg. 16 The edge Americans had were private ships that cost less than a normal naval ship. These "privateers", as they were called, attacked merchants ships the British owned.

pg. 17 The U.S. thought French Canadians would not fight for Britain. They thought that if they marched their they would be welcomed and conquer Canada.

pg. 18 Since President Jefferson thought this, it was a big setback. They marched into Canada unprepared for what would happen.

pg. 19 After Britain won the war with France, they sent more troops over to help fight America. They also sent more ships for the eastern seaport blockade.

pg. 20 The British attacked Washington D.C. with the new reinforcements. The broke through the defenses, and the president and others were forced to flee. Dolly Madison, the first lady, stayed in the White House to save a portrait of George Washington, even though it was dangerous.

pg. 21 Dolly Madison, the first lady, stayed in the White House to save a portrait of George Washington, even though it was dangerous.

pg. 22 The Americans were attacked by the British at Fort McHenry for two days. The British were forced to retreat since the Americans would not stop fighting for the fort.

pg. 23 The British attacked New Orleans, attempting to take the city and then be able to control the Mississippi River. Unprepared for the attack Andrew Jackson sent troops to protect the city behind a wall they made out of logs and earth.

pg. 24 They fought on the morning of January 8th, 1815 and the British were hidden by a fog. When the fog had vanished they went under heavy fire losing about 2,000 soldiers in under half an hour. Jackson's army lost fewer than 100 men in that half hour. After the Americans won a very convincing battle, they learned that a treaty had been signed two weeks before the battle.

pg. 25 Francis Scott Key had entered a British Warship attempting to free one of his friends. His friend was being held prisoner to the British. Key was able to get them to let his friend go, but the British wouldn't let them leave until after they finished attacking Fort McHenry.

pg. 26 Key saw the flag in the morning after the attack. The British failed to capture the fort. The feeling he had from the flag still waving were described by him a few years later, and he decided to write a song for our country.

pg. 27 The first two verse of the Star Spangled Banner O 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? On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

pg. 28 My interpretation of the first two verse of this song is that it's sunrise and Fort McHenry had been defended though the night. Our flag lasted through the night. Our defenses were still there and this could be seen at the bright dawn. The British fired off their rockets and bombs. This lit up the sky, so we could see our flag was still standing. The flag waved showing that we were still free of the British. The shore could be seen and the British had stop firing, with a sense of defeat. What is waving in the wind, over the big hill? As it waves, it shows confusion of what had happened. Many see the flag at the break of dawn. It showed we had won and were no longer under attack. It is our flag, and it will always remain that way. We are still free of the British