THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
WAR OF 1812
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They opposed American expansion into their territory.
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They opposed America’s trade policy with the Cherokee.
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They opposed U.S. acceptance of Tennessee statehood.
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They opposed President Andrew Jackson.
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Detailed explanation-1: -At the time the war broke out, the young American nation had been aggressively expanding westward, putting Indigenous peoples and their ancestral homelands under relentless attack. Seeking military allies to help protect their territory, most Native Americans chose to fight on the side of the British.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many in the party believed the war should be restricted to clashes on the high seas rather than campaigns on land. Federalists generally opposed the Republican strategy of invading Canada, believing it would result in disaster for America.
Detailed explanation-3: -Creek War, (1813–14), war that resulted in U.S. victory over Creek Indians, who were British allies during the War of 1812, resulting in vast cession of their lands in Alabama and Georgia.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ironically, whether they sided with Britain or the United States, within decades the tribes shared the same fate. Beginning in the middle of the 1830s, with the United States expanding westward, many of the tribes were forcibly removed beyond the Mississippi River to the newly organized Indian Territory.