THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
WAR OF 1812
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Question
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to force the Spanish out of Florida
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to force the Portuguese out of Mexico
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to force the British out of Canada
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to force the French out of Louisiana
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Detailed explanation-1: -U.S. Objectives of the War of 1812 were as follows: Get the British to repeal their Orders in Council, which placed severe trade restrictions on the Americans. Get the British to stop the impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy. Assert Americans’ rights to freedom of the seas.
Detailed explanation-2: -The British had no interest in fighting this war, and once it began, they had one clear goal: keep the United States from taking any part of Canada. At the outset, they hoped that, by pointing out that the Orders in Council had been revoked, the U.S. would suspend hostilities.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was the closest British colony, but Madison also had political reasons for targeting America’s northern neighbor. His Democratic-Republican Party drew much of its support from the rural South and what was then the American West-the territory stretching up the Mississippi basin to the Great Lakes.