Ib History How the War of 1812 Reflect the Same Tensions That Led to the American Civil War?
September, 2005
Internal Assessment Plan of the investigation
How the war of 1812 reflect the same tensions that led to the American civil war? For this assignment I will start out by researching my topic on the internet with two websites. Then I will give evidence for my topic by stating what the authors from the websites concluded. Afterwards I will then give my analysis on the topic and answer the question in my conclusion. To conclude my paper I will provide a bibliography that gives credit to the sources I have used.
A) Summary of Evidence
In the year 1811 the United States was on the edge of war. Within the 1811 United States congress was a group of democratic-republicans from the south and western states known as the "war hawks". They developed this nickname from being known as hot headed politicians that strongly influenced war with Great Britain (Barton, 2005). The northern New England Federalists quickly established conflicts with this group. The reason Americas war with Great Britain took place was because of England 's unreasonable Trade blockade that blocked America 's trade with Europe. So why did the seafaring New England oppose the war for a free sea? The answer is that pro-British Federalists in the northeast sympathized with Britain and resented the Republicans ' sympathy with Napoleon whom they regarded as the "anti-Christ of the age". Federalist also opposed the invasion of Canada because it would add more agrarian states from the wild northwest (David, 2002).
Napoleon 's announcement in 1810 of the revocation of his decrees was followed by British refusals to repeal their orders, and pressures for war increased. On June 18, 1812, President James MADISON signed a declaration of war that Congress--with substantial opposition--had passed at his request. The Federalist lost their fight to avoid a war with England.
During the war of 1812 the situation was particularly serious for the United States because the country was
Internal Assessment Plan of the investigation
How the war of 1812 reflect the same tensions that led to the American civil war? For this assignment I will start out by researching my topic on the internet with two websites. Then I will give evidence for my topic by stating what the authors from the websites concluded. Afterwards I will then give my analysis on the topic and answer the question in my conclusion. To conclude my paper I will provide a bibliography that gives credit to the sources I have used.
A) Summary of Evidence
In the year 1811 the United States was on the edge of war. Within the 1811 United States congress was a group of democratic-republicans from the south and western states known as the "war hawks". They developed this nickname from being known as hot headed politicians that strongly influenced war with Great Britain (Barton, 2005). The northern New England Federalists quickly established conflicts with this group. The reason Americas war with Great Britain took place was because of England 's unreasonable Trade blockade that blocked America 's trade with Europe. So why did the seafaring New England oppose the war for a free sea? The answer is that pro-British Federalists in the northeast sympathized with Britain and resented the Republicans ' sympathy with Napoleon whom they regarded as the "anti-Christ of the age". Federalist also opposed the invasion of Canada because it would add more agrarian states from the wild northwest (David, 2002).
Napoleon 's announcement in 1810 of the revocation of his decrees was followed by British refusals to repeal their orders, and pressures for war increased. On June 18, 1812, President James MADISON signed a declaration of war that Congress--with substantial opposition--had passed at his request. The Federalist lost their fight to avoid a war with England.
During the war of 1812 the situation was particularly serious for the United States because the country was
Bibliography: Barton, Pierre "War of 1812" Louisiana. 23/Mar/2005. http://gatewayno.com/history/War1812.html (9/14/05) Eisert, Kevin "The Hartford Convention" Secession Crisis. 1998. http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secessioncrisis/hartfordconvention.html (9/16/05) David, K. M., Cohen, L. & Bailey, T. A. (2002) The American Pagent. New York: Hoghton Mifflin Company