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The American War Of 1812 Dbq

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The American War of 1812 was the war between the young United States and their former mother country, Great Britain. This had been brewing for many years due to the British being at war with France. British was stopping American ships to keep France from trading with the United States. The British became aggressive and captured around 2,500 of the United States Navy attempting to force them to come to their ships’. “The day after the Senate followed the House of Representatives in voting to declare war against Great Britain, President James Madison signs the declaration into law–and the War of 1812 begins.” (“This Day in History”, 2015) Some of the Americans on the New England coast were not happy with President Madison because they feared

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