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Name 3 causes of the war of 1812
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1. The British Navy, stealing cargo and people.
2. Interference in United States shipping and trading. 3. British encouraging the First Nations to fight and attack the Americans |
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impressment
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the act of seizing for public use or of impressing into public service
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Embargo Act of 1807
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It is an act that stated the Americans ships were no longer allowed to sail to foreign ports
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how does the embargo act impact merchants in the east
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ports were nearly shut down, and the regional economy headed into a depression, with growing unemployment
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who were the war hawks
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The War Hawks were a group of Republican Congressmen who, at the end of the first decade of the 1800s, demanded that the United States declare war against Great Britain, invade British Canada, and expel the Spanish from Florida
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Tecumseh
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was a native man who's village was burned by solders and he united all the tribes
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WHO FOUGHT IN THE WAR OF 1812?!?!?
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Britain and native Americans vs. the usa
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