USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Westerners believed that the British had incited and supplied the Native Americans against them. The War Hawks also were interested in expanding the United States into Canada. The New England states (B) opposed the War of 1812, even meeting in Hartford to protest the war in 1814.

Detailed explanation-2: -Led by Henry Clay of Kentucky & John Calhoun of South Carolina, the war-hawk Congressmen argued that war with Britain would be the only way to defend American honor, gain Canada, and destroy Native American resistance on the frontier.

Detailed explanation-3: -The War Hawks tended to be younger congressmen from Southern and Western states. Their desire for war was prompted by expansionist tendencies. Their agenda included adding Canada and Florida to the territory of the United States as well as pushing the frontier farther west despite resistance from Indigenous peoples.

Detailed explanation-4: -Clay reasoned that because Canada was so vulnerable, an attack on the British colony would force Britain to make concessions on both issues. At the same time, the conquest of Canada would remove a longstanding threat to America’s security on the North American continent and restore national honor.

Detailed explanation-5: -They were further indignant over British encouragement of Indian hostilities toward settlers in the Northwest and hoped to use war with England to wrest Florida from Spain, Britain’s ally. The nationalistic fervour and anti-British sentiment whipped up by the War Hawks was a contributing cause to the War of 1812.