THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
WAR OF 1812
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Many Americans were angry at the British for the harassing of American merchant ships that led to trade restrictions.
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Many Americans were angry at Henry Clay for fighting for embargoes and for putting trade restrictions into place.
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Many Americans were angry at Canada for the war against Great Britain and their demands that Americans remain neutral.
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Many Americans were angry at the British for the war against France and their demands that Americans remain neutral.
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Detailed explanation-1: -2 the trade restrictions made the United States to wage war against the British to remove the trade prohibition. The main reason was the impressment of American soldiers by the British.
Detailed explanation-2: -Leading up to the official declaration of war, the United States used trade restrictions in an effort to pressure Britain to stop its impressment of American sailors and its enforcement of the Orders-in-Council-Britain’s set of legislation that restricted trade with the United States prior to the War of 1812.
Detailed explanation-3: -The War of 1812 (1812-15) was fought between the United States and Great Britain, primarily over the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy, as well as disagreements over trade, western expansion, and Native American policy.
Detailed explanation-4: -The War of 1812 provided tremendous stimulus to American manufacturing. It encouraged American manufacturers to produce goods previously imported from overseas. By 1816, 100, 000 factory workers, two-thirds of them women and children, produced more than $40 million worth of manufactured goods a year.