DJ+storybook+q's


 * 1) darkcow is going to create a children's story about the War of 1812 and the formation of the starspangled banner that will: make the reader patriotic
 * 2) My children's story will solve the following problem: what caused the war of 1812
 * 3) My audience will experience my story through the eyes of: Madison
 * 4) My children's story will have the following common characteristics: N/A
 * 5) My children's story will have the following key historical events: Fort McHenry, the creation of the starspangled banner.
 * 6) My children's story will have the following key historical characters: Madison, Tecumseh, and Francis Scott Key.
 * 7) My children's story will have the following key historically important concrete objects: large merchant ships, The starspangled banner.
 * 8) My children's story will make the audience feel the following emotions: patriotism
 * 9) My children's story will be credible because I will support it with the following sources: the book, the movie

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1) I was the president during the War of 1812. I was the first president to declare war. May name is President James Madison. 2) Before the war, Britain and France were at war. Our country's trade was based on these two powerful nations. 3) The two countries decided to stop the American trade to the other. 4) The British didn't just stop our trade, but they took our sailors as well. 5) One day, an American ship, the Chesapeake, was attacked by the British. We didn't like what happened. 6) We stopped trading as a response. 7) Instead of hurting France and England, it hurt America's trade. 8) The British wanted to stop the American expansion to the west. They trained Native Americans to fight the Americans. 9) Tecumseh was one of these Nartives. 10) His dream was to unite all tribes to defete the Americans. 11) When Tecumseh was away, the group of Native Americans attacked some of our troops. The natives lost. 12) Because of that battle, Tecumseh's dream was shattered. 13) The War Hawks were members of the American Congress. 14) They thought Britain was stopping us from expanding. They wanted to go to war to stop that. 15) Others thought that war would not solve anything. They wanted to defend the country not attack another. 16) I eventually declared war because of Britain's violation of our neutrallity. New England, New York, New Jersey and Deliware all voted against the war. However, the War Hawks still won the vote and we were off to war. 17) At the beginning of the war, we were nothing. we had no navy and no trained army. Britain was well prepared, but they were fighting a war against France at that time. 18) Since we had no navy, I made it legal to have piracy against the British. Instead of calling them pirates, we called them privateers. 19) The beginning of the war did not go well for us. Most battles were fought on Canadian soil and we were losing mos tof them. 20) When our troops reached the Canadian parliament, we burned it down. The Canadians were under british control then. 21) When the British finally defeated Frnace and Nepoleon, they focused in on our soil, particularly our capital. 22) I thought that they wouldn't attack Washington D.C. because one of my advisors said they wouldn't. 23) They did and started to burn it all down. My wife, Dolly Madison, brought many documents and paintings to safety. 24) After Washington D.C., Britain decided to attak Baltimore, where most of our privateers came from. 25) Our troops set up a perimeter around Baltimore to protect from a land invasion. Fort McHenry gaurded Baltimore from a naval invasion. 26) When the battle started, we rose our largest flag at Fort McHenry. This meant that the fort still was working. 27) Our ground forces also encountered some fighting. A sniper shot the British commander. 28) When the night came, the battle was still going on. The British were launching rockets and bombs at Fort McHenry. 29) In the bay, Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that you may know during this time. You now know it as our countries national anthem, The Star Spangled Banner. 30) We defeted the British that day and eventually went on to finish the war. We won of course.