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Impressment of sailors
Between 1793 and 1812, the British impressed more than 15,000 U.S. sailors to supplement their fleet during their Napoleonic Wars with France. By 1812 the United States Government had had enough. On 18 June, the United States declared war on Great Britain, citing, in part, impressment. -
Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality
The Proclamation of Neutrality was a formal announcement issued by President George Washington on April 22, 1793, that declared America neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain. It threatened any American providing assistance to any country at war. -
Jay Treaty
The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between Britain and the United States of America, commonly was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain that averted war, from issues since the Treaty of Paris of 1783. Attempted to resolve issues but didn't. -
Washington’s Farewell Address
This address was made when Washington left the presidency, and he explicitly said not to create political parties. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances with other nations. The address was printed in Philadelphia's American Daily Advertiser on September 19, 1796. -
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
The Chesapeake–Leopard affair was a naval engagement that occurred off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on June 22, 1807, between the British warship HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake. The crew of Leopard pursued, attacked, and boarded the American frigate, looking for deserters from the Royal Navy. -
Embargo Act of 1807
The Embargo Act of 1807 was a law passed by the United State Congress and signed by President Thomas Jefferson on December 22, 1807. It prohibited American ships from trading in all foreign ports. It was economically destructive to America, and was repealed in March, 1809. -
Tecumseh's War
Tecumseh's War was a conflict between the United States and an American Indian confederacy led by the Shawnee leader Tecumseh in the Indiana Territory. Although the war is often considered to have climaxed with William Henry Harrison's victory at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, the war lasted until the fall of 1813, when Tecumseh, at the Battle of the Thames. It's considered part of the of War of 1812. Weakens Indian Confed. -
War Hawks
A group of pro-war Republicans, led by Speaker of the House Henry Clay, argued that military force was the only option left to combat British imperiousness. These “War Hawks” were not a majority of the party, but over time, their influence acted on more skeptical party members. -
War of 1812 Begins
The immediate causes of the War of 1812 were a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the US as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807. The War of 1812 was a conflict fought between the United States, the United Kingdom, and their respective allies from June 1812 to February 1815. -
Tecumseh
Tecumseh was the Shawnee leader of a Pan-Indian confederation forged between 1807 and 1813.He led a remnant of the confederation into an alliance with Britain during the War of 1812. At the Battle of the Thames in 1813, the British and Native Americans were defeated by an American force, Tecumseh was killed, and the surviving Native Americans withdrew from the alliance. (1768–1813) Indian Confed. collapses. -
Hartford Convention
The Hartford Convention was a series of meetings from December 15, 1814 to January 5, 1815. In Hartford, Connecticut, United States, the New England Federalist Party met to discuss their grievances concerning the ongoing War of 1812 and the political problems arising from the federal government's increasing power. Federalists threatens to secede the U.S. -
Treaty of Ghent
This treaty ended the war of 1812, on paper, between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Both sides signed it on December 24, 1814, in the city of Ghent, United Netherlands. Though the last Battle was fought in 1815. Doesn't resolve any issues that started the war, the war basically was just a standstill with loss of monies. -
Battle of New Orleans
On December 24, 1814, Great Britain and the United States signed a treaty in Ghent, Belgium that effectively ended the War of 1812. The news didn't reach everywhere before the Battle of New Orleans, future President Andrew Jackson and a motley assortment of militia fighters, frontiersmen, slaves, Indians, and even pirates weathered a frontal assault by a superior British force, inflicting devastating casualties along the way.