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What were the causes of the War of 1812?
What were the causes of the War of 1812?
Explain why the War of 1812 was so politically divisive and poorly fought by the U.S.
Explain why Americans experienced more success on water than on land.
What were the long-term results of Mr. Madison's War for the U.S. at home and abroad.
Explain why Americans experienced more success on water than on land.
What were the long-term results of Mr. Madison's War for the U.S. at home and abroad.
Why were some people,
particularly in New England, opposed to the war?
In what way did the war signal a
death knell for Federalism?
Why was the U.S. able to
negotiate such favorable terms in the Transcontinental Treaty (also known as?)?
Examine the origins of the
Monroe Doctrine and explain its real and symbolic significance for American foreign policy and for relations with the new Latin American republics.
Monroe's presidency became
known as the "Era of Good Feelings" why? Why is this a misnomer?
What were the issues leading
up to the Missouri Compromise (be sure and discuss sectional issues, emergence
of sectional leaders, political divisions)?
Discuss the American
System and its originator. Many of the ideas put forth in the American System had been bandied about for generations; what were the original roots?
Discuss how John Marshall's Supreme Court promoted the spirit of nationalism through its rulings in favor of federal power.
Monroe's presidency became known as the "Era of Good Feelings" why? Why is this a misnomer?
ReplyDeleteJames Monroe won the election of 1816 and was a representative of the Republican Party. He supported Federal funding and raised protective tariffs during his term. He also won the Election of 1820 when he was up against John Quincy Adams. There were many things that gave this period of time the title "Era of Good Feelings" one of those factors included the Transcontinental Treaty or also known as The Adams-Onís Treaty. In the year of 1819 the U.S. and Spain finally settled the argument that decided whether or not Florida would be considered a part of the Louisiana purchase. This treaty said that Spain ceded Florida to the United States and agreed to a border west of the Mississippi. This treaty gave the United States its first legitimate claim to the west coast.
The Era of Good Feelings is a misnomer because it was actually characterized as a time of great political tension between Democratic-Republicans inside the party, the aftermath of the collapsed Federalist party, and turmoil as the First Party System declined. The common belief was that the Era was filled with unifying national spirit after the Napoleonic Wars and the success/cooperation of the one-party system. Despite these beliefs, during Monroe's presidency, which ultimately lined up with the Era of Good Feelings (1816- 1825), Democratic-Republicans (the only remaining political party) faced many divisions within their party. The divisions concerned many issues (including tariffs, the US bank, and internal issues) and ultimately left the Democratic- Republican party split into two separate parties- the Whigs and the Democrats.
ReplyDeleteDespite the internal bickering of the Democratic-Republican Party, time and consensus was found to admit six new states: Indiana (1816), Mississippi (1817), Illinois (1818), Alabama (1819), Maine (1820), and Missouri (1821). Furthermore, it should be mentioned that the last two were admitted into the Union as part of a compromise (the Compromise of 1820) between factions of the Party, a prime example of the inter-party divisions Sarah mentioned.
DeleteWhy were some people, particularly in New England, opposed to the war?
ReplyDeleteMany people were opposed to another war with Great Britain, especially those from New England. This was due to the fact that many of the people of New England were merchants and traders and made a living off of overseas. If America was to declare war on Great Britain than that would mean that these New Englanders who made a living off of trading would no longer be able to trade with their greatest trading partners residing in Great Britain and therefore they would no longer have a job.
A lot of New Englanders were also Federalists who were pro-British and anti-French.
DeleteNew Englanders had a good relationship with Britain due to trade. Opposition to the war left New Englanders wishing to succeed from the United States. This led to the Hartford Convention, which began in 1814. Here Federalists addressed grievances they had against the government. The convention was ultimately ignored after the end of the War of 1812 and led to the demise of the Federalist Party.
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DeleteWhat were the causes of the War of 1812?
ReplyDeleteThere were several immediate stated causes for the U.S. declaration of war: First, a series of trade restrictions introduced by Britain to impede American trade with France, a country with which Britain was at war with. Second, the impressment of U.S. seamen into the Royal Navy; third, the British military support for American Indians who were offering armed resistance to the expansion of the American frontier to the Northwest; fourth, a possible desire on the part of the United States to annex Canada. An implicit but powerful motivation for the Americans was the desire to uphold national honor in the face of what they considered to be British insults, such as the Chesapeake affair.
What were the issues leading up to the Missouri Compromise The issue of free and slave states was the major problem that led to the making of the Missouri Compromise. The country became shaken up when Missouri asked for admission to the Union as a slave state in 1819, which would then threaten to make slave states and free states unbalanced. There were also political rivalries between the north and the south. Northerners said that Congress had the power to end slavery in a new state while Southerners said that new states had the same freedom as the original thirteen colonies, so they should be free to choose slavery if they wanted it. Conflicts such as these led to the compromise.
ReplyDeleteTo keep the peace Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. They also passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory that established a boundary until the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
DeleteExplain why the War of 1812 was so politically divisive and poorly fought by the U.S.
ReplyDeleteThe war of 1812 was extremely politically divisive in the United States due to the lack of support on the side of the Federalists, and the results that this dissention had on the unity of the country. During the war, the Federalists in New England decided that they no longer supported the cause of the United States, instead financially supporting England for the remainder of the fight. This gnathonic set of ideals culminated in the Hartford Convention, where the dissenting New England states ultimately decided that they no longer wanted to comprise a part of he United States, and penned a document announcing their immediate desire to return to England. Because of this national disunity during the time of the War of 1812, many people were against it because they felt the United States had more pressing issues to deal with at the time, such as the pusillanimous actions between New England and her older namesake.
This article was very complex yet interesting but I thought for the good of this blog I would help by defining the word gnathonic.
DeleteGnathonic:sycophantic(a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.); fawning.
for the record, I owned this word :)
origin of the American system and what it was.
ReplyDeleteThe American system was created by Henry clay. Things included in the American system included the promotion of inter-state commerce through the creation of roads and canals in the hope of achieving American self-sufficency by not needing to import goods from other countries.
ALso, Henry Clay based his ideas for the American System off of those put forth by Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton was pro-protective tariff, as well as pro-national bank. He hoped these two concepts would allow for greater economic efficiency within the United States and culminate in self sufficiency.
DeleteThe American System was used by America after the War of 1812. It also created a protective tariff on American Markets.
DeleteThe protective tariff Aly mentioned was the Tariff of 1816, which had rates roughly 20-25 percent on the value of dutiable imports. It did not provide complete safeguards, but it was an important beginning for such tariffs.
DeleteWhat were the causes of the War of 1812?
ReplyDeleteFrance and Britain, Europe's two most powerful nations, had battles almost constantly since 1793, and their warfare directly affected American trade. Fighting began during the French Revolution when England united with other European nations in an unsuccessful attempt to restore the French monarchy, and then continued as Britain led the efforts to stop French expansion under Napoleon. American presidents from Washington to Madison tried to keep the United States impartial during these conflicts, but both France and Britain deliberately ignored the rights of neutral countries. Also, American seaman were captured by the British to be used in the British navy.
The U.S. did not feel they were being treated like an independent nation, there is no clear "reason" as to why it started, it was mostly a bunch of small disputes that grew, not to mention propaganda on both sides and lies such as "the British were giving the Indians guns to kill the Americans", things like Indians killing Americans was defiantly not helping, as we believed that the British were behind it. Indians killed Americans because they did, nothing to do with British. The British would respond by making lies about Americans killing the British and so on and so forth.
DeleteWhat were the long-term results of Mr. Madison's War for the U.S. at home and abroad.
ReplyDeleteThe long term effects of the war of 1812 are
1. England can't make claims on the continental US any longer.
2. the Native Americans are severed from significant contact with outside nations.
3. The "serious" economic world leaders (Norway, Russia, Prussia, Italy) recognizes that the United States are a serious group of citizens, and can handle a fight against a world power while STILL growing the economy.
4. Gives credibility to the Monroe Doctrine "From sea to Shining Sea" setting the goal for unbridled expansion to the Pacific.
Explain why Americans experienced more success on water than on land. Americans experienced more success on water than on land mainly due to the fact that the british naval fleet was split between the wars with Napoleon and the war of 1812 with the U.S. not necessarily because of the strength of the U.S. navy. The British fleet had to be fighting in two different places thus splitting its naval power in half, causing the U.S. to experience a lot more victory's than previously thought of. So, the U.S. experienced more victories in the sea than on land due to the fact that the British naval forces were not at full strength because of them being tied up with the Napoleonic wars.
ReplyDeleteAlso American ships were in a sense made with better equipment and better gunners. But a disadvantage that took over us that we based our thoughts of the war off of revenge. Which made us bad soldiers on land fights because all we did is unstregically fight wild and made us better in the sea.
DeleteIn the years leading up to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, tensions began to rise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country. They reached a boiling point after Missouri’s 1819 request for admission to the Union as a slave state, which threatened to upset the delicate balance between slave states and free states. To keep the peace, Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. It also passed an amendment that drew an imaginary line across the former Louisiana Territory, establishing a boundary between free and slave regions that remained the law of the land until it was negated by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
ReplyDeleteIn what way did the war signal a death knell for Federalism?
ReplyDeleteAs per tradition, Federalists were pro-British and commercial development, and were also traditionally strongest in the North East. Thus, when the Hartford Convention (December 15, 1814 - January 5, 1815) convened in Hartford, Connecticut, it was no surprise it was led by a group of Federalists. The Convention, through a series of resolutions, called for New England to secede from the United States (the governor of Massachusetts had even contacted the British about a separate peace agreement for what he thought was going to be a new nation.) The resolutions stated, however, the the states would stay put if the following demands were met: States were to have the right to declare federal laws unconstitutional, States were to be responsible for their own defense, The Three-Fifths Clause was to be removed from the Constitution, The institution of a one-term limit for the President, The institution of a ban on residents from one state directly succeeding one another as President (this was aimed specifically at Virginia), and the Prohibition of naturalized citizens from holding federal positions. Unfortunately for the Convention, the Treaty of Ghent was signed on December 24, 1814, and the Convention's resolutions fell to deaf ears. The aforementioned left the Federalist Party, already in decline, largely discredited (the be a member insinuated that you were a secessionist), and by 1824 it had completely dissolved from officialdom (its members, despite retaining their Federalist views, joined the Democratic-Republican Party, thus sparking the "Era of Good Feelings").
Nationalism is an ideology when an individual identifies himself with his nation. The Supreme Court rulings of John Marshall aided to the rise of nationalism by strengthening the US into a nation people would be proud to attach to. He did so by making rulings that increased the power of the federal government, which in turn strengthened the nation. Some of these rulings was the McCulloch v. Maryland case of 1819, where the federal Bank of the United States was protected by taxing at the hand of state governments, and the Cohens v. Virginia case in 1821, asserting that the Supreme Court had the right to review the decisions of the Supreme Court in all questions involving the powers of the federal government.
ReplyDeleteMany of them thought that it would be a national disaster, that it would cause calamity. Congressman Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts thought the war was cowardly, futile, unconstitutional, and that the main reason of it was to get President Madison reelected. New England was also full of Federalists, who didn't like the war for specific reasons.
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