1812

The war of 1812 was a war that to most Americans is simply forgotten. Basically, when most Americans think of the war of 1812 they think of the fact that the British had a problem with the French rebilion, and there was some fighting, and the British put the French down. In actually fact there was so many overlooked variables that came into play. First off the French were trying once agian to find a line to distinguish the terrioty of mordern day Canada, and present day U.S.( which was controlled by Britian in 1812). Also this war was mostly caused because Britian intervenied with trade between Americans and Canida. It was nice for Americans in the sense that they were getting great deals for trading because the England was imposing new trade taxes to get a peice of Americans/ Candians resource money. So when we look back on this war we should altimitly remeber that this war was not fought so that the British could not only gain more terriotories, but also it was fought for resource money.

"War of 1812." Thomas College. Web. 2 Jan. 2012. .

After the 1791 Constitutional Act the boundaries between Upper Canada and America began to blur. This wasn’t a problem at first, but at the turn of the 19th century things took a turn for the worst. Great Brittan and France were at war with each other and Brittan kept taking US ships forcing them into combat against the French ships. President Jefferson then created an embargo against Brittan in 1807 which strained the relationship between Canada and America. The tension increased to the point where in 1812 a full-on war started. Along with stooping the English from impressing American sailors the President thought that it would be a good chance to obtain western land in Canada by just marching in and taking it. So Americans invaded the Niagara peninsula in 1812 and 1813. In 1813 they burned down buildings in York (Toronto). Even though there were few British Canadians than there were Americans, the British Canadians had alliances with some Native American groups which gave them additional fighting power. (GM)