What Was The Wrongness Of War Hawks In The War Of 1812

In the War of 1812, some Americans thought that the war was a great idea, (A.K.A. the war hawks), but others thought the idea of a war was absolutely terrible, (A.K.A. the doves). In this situation even though the people that wanted the war had there opinions like if the U.S. won they could maybe get land in Canada, the people who were against the war(which was mostly people around the East Coast) were mostly right when they claimed that the war was a terrible idea for things like losing big cities next to the coast. They were right when they said we shouldn’t go to war because of our military problems, financial problems, big cities on the coast would get destroyed, and having to run a country that had only been around for about 50 years that hasn’t even declared
This all adds up to the doves being completely correct about the whole war idea being a terrible mistake.

Even though they were partly wrong the war hawks or the people with the whole war idea, had good reasons for the war and some of the others weren’t that bad. The first reason was that the U.S. could stop the British from arming the N.A.s with weapons(i.o.). Well, this statement wasn’t 100% true at the moment if anything the war hawks kind of accused them instead of actually knowing about the N.A. gun control(i.o.). This wasn't 100% true because some merchants in the U.S. were selling these guns to the N.A.s because the merchants had to sell more products because of things like they “Embargo Act” set by president Thomas Jefferson(doc. #5). The second reason for the war hawks wanting a war would be the idea of wanting land in Canada, of course if we won possibly. Nicholas Smyth, part of House of Representative Foreign Affairs Committee, stood up for Canada in a certain way defending why