Ch. 7 HW - War of 1812 - DBQ Practice -- DUE FRIDAY 9/28

Prompt: Evaluate the Causes of the War of 1812

See pages 224-230 & War of 1812 Slides

1) Extended Analysis: Take notes describing TWO of the following: Audience, Purpose,

Context or Point of View.

2) Relevant Outside Evidence: List TWO relevant specific pieces of information not directly

mentioned in the document

3) Link to Prompt: Write a few sentences explaining how the document and outside evidence

helps answer the prompt.

and last part of Chapter 7 (pp. 222-230)

The War of 1812 –

Crash Course US History #11https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMXqg2PKJZU&list=PL8dPu

uaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s&index=11

Background Causes1 - The

Napoleonic

Wars

2 - British

“Impressment”

of American

Sailors

3 - Chesapeake Affair

4 - Thomas Jefferson tries

to avoid war with France

and England but increases

sectional tensions with the

controversial

Embargo Act - (1807)

5- Violence stemming from land conflicts between

American “pioneers” & Native Americans

in the Ohio Valley & Great Lakes regions

Indians lead by brothers:

Tecumseh Tenskwatawa (aka “the Prophet”)

American Cartoon Depicting British & Native Americans in Great Lakes Region

(Ohio, Michigan & Indiana)

Context? Audience? Point of View? Purpose?

TJ’s close ally

James Madison

becomes President

in 1809

Pressured by

Western “War Hawks”

in Congress

Efforts at

“Peaceable Coercion”

(ex: Embargo) Fail

Congress votes for

War with England in 1812

by narrow margin

War of 1812

(1812-1815)Areas of

Fighting:

•Great

Lakes

•Atlantic

Seaboard

•South

A few military “highlights”

of War of 1812:

British Burning Washington DC

Victory at Battle of Tippecanoe

USS Constitution aka “Old Iron Sides” not sinking

Francis Scott Key

writes the

Star Spangled Banner

Battle of New Orleans(War technically already over)

Gen. Andrew Jackson

Leads US to victory at

Treat of Ghent(Dec. 1814)

Officially ends war with

“Status Quo

Ante Bellum”

Results of War of 1812

• US does not lose!

• US gains national pride/heroes

• A national anthem no one can

remember words to

• US gain more economic self

sufficiency (partly due to after effects of

Embargo Act and Partly due to pro-

business & pro-nationalist John

Marshall led Supreme Court)

• Western lands wide open to settlement

as Indians east of Mississippi devastated

• Dislike of European affairs increases –

renewed isolationism

(ex: Monroe Doctrine)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVC677-YmfM

Funny Canadian Song About War of 1812Why does War of 1812 contribute to Canadian nationalism?