What foreign

policy did

George

Washington

support in

his Farewell

Address?

Early US Presidents

1789-1797

President Washington

1797-1801

President Adams

1801-1809

President Jefferson

1809-1817

President Madison

1817-1825

President Monroe

Napoleonic Wars 1799-1815

Britain v. France

Battle of Waterloo - approximately 70,000 casualties and losses!

Extent of the Napoleonic Wars

Battle between the British and French at Trafalgar

Impressment: kidnapping Americans to serve in the British navy

Jefferson’s Policy

• Maintain Neutrality

– Claimed “freedom of the

Seas”

• Britain refuses to stop

intercepting US ships

• Embargo Act

– US would not trade with

Britain or France

• Embargo FAILS!

“War Hawk” – John C. Calhoun

US declares war on Britain!

President Madison’s War

Message

British attack and burn Washington DC

James and

Dolly

Madison

have to

quickly flee

the White

House

Original White House burned by the British

US wins the Battle of New Orleans!

General Andrew Jackson Hero of the Battle of New Orleans

Fort McHenry, Baltimore

Bombardment of Fort McHenry

by the British

Oh, 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?....

Star Spangled Banner

by Francis Scott key

Effects of the

War of 1812

Justified

neutrality

policy

American

manufacturing

grew

Weakened the

Federalist

Party

Andrew Jackson

becomes a

national hero

Increased Nationalism

(Star Spangled Banner)

Restored the

“status quo”

Why do you think the War

of 1812 has been called

‘our second war of

independence’?

Simon Bolivar

Independence in Latin America