USA HISTORY

THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825

WAR OF 1812

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following two countries most interfered with United States trade on the Atlantic Ocean during the period between 1798 and 1812:
A
Spain and Russia
B
France and Spain
C
Britain and Spain
D
Britain and France
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The tensions that caused the War of 1812 arose from the French revolutionary (1792–99) and Napoleonic Wars (1799–1815). During this nearly constant conflict between France and Britain, American interests were injured by each of the two countries’ endeavours to block the United States from trading with the other.

Detailed explanation-2: -The War of 1812 pitted the young United States in a war against Great Britain, from whom the American colonies had won their independence in 1783. The conflict was a byproduct of the broader conflict between Great Britain and France over who would dominate Europe and the wider world.

Detailed explanation-3: -After Napoleon’s disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, the British concentrated on the American continent, enacting a crippling blockading of the east coast, attacking Washington and burning the White House and other Government buildings, and acquiring territory in Maine and the Great Lakes region.

Detailed explanation-4: -Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Cherokee, a southern tribe who lived in the Carolinas and Georgia, sided with the Americans during the War of 1812. Although Tecumseh asked the tribe to join his confederacy, the Cherokee refused, most likely because it would also mean allying themselves with their rivals, the Creeks.

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