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This 3 page paper examines the War of 1812 briefly and how America "won" it. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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was a strange war, a war based on almost nothing except the desire by some Americans to wage it. This paper examines the War of 1812 briefly and how
America "won" it. Discussion Although the situation was complex, the "immediate origins of the war were seizure of American ships, insults and injuries to American seamen by the British
Navy, and rapid expansion of the American frontier" (The war of 1812, 2001). At sea, the British were doing two different things that enraged Americans: first, they were seizing
and selling American ships and their cargoes, alleging that they had violated the British blockade; and second, they were taking Americans from their ships and forcing them to serve in
the Royal Navy (The war of 1812, 2001). Of the two, the naval "press gangs" aroused the greatest anger in the country. President Jefferson clamped an embargo on trade,
which angered ship owners in New England and turned them against Jefferson, but the rest of the country seemed to be angrier with the British (The war of 1812, 2001).
In the Northwest (which at the time was Illinois, not the Pacific Northwest), settler "were convinced that their problems could best be solved by forcing the British out of
Canada" (The war of 1812, 2001). All of these various forces found voice in a group called the "War Hawks," a "rising young generation of political leaders ... [who]
strongly resented the continuing influence of Britain ... on American affairs" (Faragher, et al., 2000, p. 247). They seized on the national discontent as a lever to force President
James Madison to declare war; the war resolution was passed in June 1812 (Faragher, et al., 2000). In many ways, this was a second American Revolution, as the War
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