Chapter 12

Embargo

• Jefferson’s embargo failed– Economic disaster– OR DID IT….

• Non Intercourse- Same thing• Macon’s Bill- Tricked by Napoleon

Direct Causes

• British Impressment• Not France- DRs like France– Plus Napoleon tricked us

• Chance for land- Canada– War Hawks!

• English giving guns to Indians• Only English actively stopped our ships

To Canada

• Quick success in Canada would cause England to lose influence in area

• Land offensives fail, so they tried water control– Oliver Hazard Perry captured a fleet on Lake Erie– Huge victory, coupled with Harrison’s victory at

Battle of Thames, turns the war

Napoleon Leaves

• Napoleon exiled and England throws all available troops into Canada– Macdonough stops English fleet in upper NY,

stopping the English from taking NY

Washington

• A second force lands in Chesapeake Bay and burn Washington DC– Senators and Dolly Madison barely make it out of

White House• Ft. McHenry stops the British– Francis Scott Key

• Meanwhile Andrew Jackson leads indians and untrained soldiers to a victory in New Orleans– Actually happened after the Peace Treaty

Overview

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1812

Overview

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1812

Treaty of Ghent

• Both sides agreed to stop fighting• No mention of impressment

Hartford Convention

• Federalists angry at lost trade– Remember: NE is strongly merchant needing trade

• NE States draw up Hartford Convention and deliver it to DC– DC basically still shouldering– Battle of New Orleans news arrived before them

• No more Federalists

Reflection

• Napoleon invaded Russia with 500,000 men• USA invaded Canada with 5000• Small war with limited casualities• US Navy showed promise• Manufacturing increased (Blockade)– Did TJ help out his dead pal Hamilton???

• Longest border in the world established• Napoleon failed and Europe falls into peace– USA free to expand and grow

Era Of Good Feelings

• Nationalism:– New Literature– DC better than before– Sense of pride– Political calm (No federalists)

American System

• First a tariff to battle cheap English goods• Next, the American System– Henry Clay: Bank, Tariff, Roads– Madison hated it and vetoed road bill

Era of Good Feelings?

• Monroe wins 1816 easily• Only one party• South starting to get mad at tariff and west

favoritism• Panic of 1819– Caused by speculation– Almost bankrupt Bank of United States

West

• Nine new states since Revolution• West was slow to develop

Slavery

• States came in alternating between free and slave

• Tallmadge amendment wanted no more slave states after Missouri

• Leads to the Missouri Compromise– No new slave states north of 36 30 line, except

Missouri

Marshal Cases

• McCulloch v. Maryland• Cohens v. Virginia• Dartmouth v. Woodward• Gibbons v. Ogden• Cherokee Nation v. Georgia• Etc.

Florida

• Jackson went into Florida with troops• Adams- Onis treaty gives US Florida and

Oregon, US drops claims on Texas

Monroe Doctrine

• Fear in America of Monarchs taking over in our hemisphere lead to the Monroe Doctrine