USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In Congress a young group including Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, the “War Hawks, ” pressed the President for a more militant policy. The British impressment of American seamen and the seizure of cargoes impelled Madison to give in to the pressure. On June 1, 1812, he asked Congress to declare war.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Felix Grundy of Nashville served in the U.S. House of Representatives and emerged as a national leader of the War Hawks.

Detailed explanation-4: -The War Hawks pressed President James Madison to declare war against Britain and thereby salvage American honor, which they argued was being thoroughly violated by the British forcibly commandeering U.S. citizens on the high seas. But their motives weren’t as pure as that.

Detailed explanation-5: -Henry Clay, U.S. Senator from Kentucky influenced Madison to declare the war on Britain in 1812.