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**My Wonderful Book Pages!!**
1. Introduction. 2. Britain and France are at War. (Picture- ships fighting on the water.) 3. Britain and France make a decision about imports from the US. (Picture- documents about imports and ships) 4. Impressment. (Picture- 5. The Chesapeake incident. 6. The Embargo Act 7. Did the Embargo act work? 8. Why did the British help the Indian Nations? 9. Who was Tecumseh? 10. What was his dream? 11. The Battle of Tippecanoe. 12. The Impact the Battle of Tippecanoe had on Tecumseh's Dream. 13. The War Hawks Point-of-View. 14. The opposition's Point-of-View. 15. The President, his reasons, and the vote. 16. War is declared- The US at the beginning of the War compared to Britain at the beginning of the War. Privateers. 17. America tries to take over Canada, but keeps failing to do so. 18. The British and Indians decide to work together to defeat the Americans. 19. America took over York (A Canadian town) and burned it. The British wanted revenge on the Americans for burning down York so they walked all the way from Baltimore to Washington D.C. Once they get to Washington, they burned down the White House. This is when President Madison disappears. 20. Dolly. 21. The Americans won a battle. This helped to make sure that the Canadian border was safe. The British tried to attack Baltimore, but the Americans were prepared. The fight lasted for three days. Then the British surrendered. 22. Francis Scott Key watched the fight from his boat. He wrote a poem about the great battle and it became our National Anthem. Francis Scott Key was amazed that our flag had stayed waving through the whole battle. 23. Conclusion. 24. Lyrics to the first verse of the SSB. 25. My interpretation of the first verse of the SSB.