CHAPTER 12 Apush

• JAMES MADISON

  -Served 1809-1817 (2 terms)

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  • Presidency was dominated by war, foreign problems
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  • Domestic Policy:

  1.  Favored smaller government (like Jefferson)

  2.  Didn’t want a national bank (like Jefferson)
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  • Foreign Policy:

  1.  Problems with Native Americans (again)

  2.  Tecumseh and his brother The Prophet rose up against U.S. forces

  3.  Indians won several victories

  4.  British supplied the Indians with weapons
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  • Foreign Policy:

  5.  Indians eventually defeated at Tippecanoe (in present Indiana) by General William Henry Harrison 
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  War with Britain (Take 2)

  Causes:

  1.  British supplied Indians w/ guns, instigated them to fight U.S. 

  2.  Impressment of U.S. sailors (Chesapeake incident in 1807)

  3.  Seizure of U.S. merchant ships
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  War is ON!

  1.  Congressmen from new western states tired of Indian attacks SAY WAR!! (“warhawks”)

  2.  Merchant shippers in East SAY WAR!!

  3.  War declared June 1812
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  Where fought?

  1.  U.S. invasion of Canada (FAIL)

  2.  U.S. defeat British fleet on Great Lakes (SCORE!)

  3.  Atlantic Ocean- British Navy just too powerful- blockaded U.S. coast (FAIL)

  4.  White House & Capitol- burned to the ground (FAIL)
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  Where fought?

  5.  Western territories- U.S. Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated Native Americans (Horseshoe Bend), British (New Orleans)- Jackson a tough guy! (SCORE!)
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  Results?

  Treaty of Ghent (1814)-

  1.  Actually an armistice (cease-fire)

  2.  Boundaries the same, settled no real issues

  **Britain & U.S. came to respect each other in later years (no more war between them)