•War Hawks – Congressmen who favored war w/ G. Britain

Henry Clay (Kentucky) John C. Calhoun (S.C.)

•President James Madison (elected 1808)

•Congress declared war (1st time)

War of 1812

First phase of war*At sea – British blockade

USS Constitution a.k.a. Old Ironsides

*Lake Erie – Oliver Hazard Perry

• Flag - “Don’t give up the ship”

• British surrendered

• Perry sent message to Wm Henry Harrison

• “We have met the enemy, and they are ours.”

*Battle of Thames

Tecumseh is killed – weakens the Indian-British alliance

Second Phase of war

• Invade Chesapeake Bay – take DC

• August 1814

• residents fled

• city burned

• hurricane put fires out - spared

• Fort McHenry –

Baltimore, MD

Francis Scott Key

“Star Spangled Banner”

Treaty of Ghent (Belgium)• December 1814

• problems of impressment & trade were not settled

• each returned conquered territory

• talk later

Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson

January 1815

• built earthen walls

• great victory

• British casualties – 2,030

• American “ - 21

Hartford Convention•wanted New England to secede

•success of war left Federalists w/ reduced power