Saturday, October 20, 2007

The War of 1812

The War of 1812 was fought between U.S. and England. Ending in 1815 with Treaty of Ghent, the war did not complish any issue it was being fought for. Also at the start of the war, America was unprepared for such a conflict. When the war began, it seems a justified cause for American to address grievances toward the British, however not all citizens shared the same sens of unity about the political issues the war was fought over. The US was upset about impressment of American sailors into British Navy and seizures of American merchant trading vessels by British. Another reason the U.S. wished go the war with Britain was because they dealing with the Indian of West. The British was not only trading with Indians, they were alos giving them weapons adn encouraging them to attack America settlement. Even these were the causes the nation was supposely fighting for, entire nation lacked a major force to gain restitution for them.
Also consequently war had arosed resentments upon on certain group. New England damned the war for a free sea, as it would cut down their profitable shipping business. And impressment was an exaggerated wrong: New England shippers and manufacturers were still raking in money, taking the profit. A war with Britain would definitely leave many of the planters, merchants with extensive idle inventories of product. The Federalist also had great apprehension towards the war. At the time, the Federalist was a dying party, partly because their lose in the power of government. And Jeffersonia Republican would increase the voting strength, particularly because most Canadian were common workers, not aristocrats who trying in vain to keep the Federalist as an assertive party in America politics. Because these apprehensions toward the war, the citizens were unable to unite and join together to support the war on around them.

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