Causes
Britain was still treating the United States of America like a colony by stopping ships, limiting economic opportunity with port blockages, and preventing western development. With this in mind, Americans wanted to assert themselves as this from Britian.
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This was a small but vocal group of men in the American Congress that pushed for a war with British North America. They felt that British North America was a source of good cheap farmland, and feared that a British North American and First Nations alliance was forming.
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Britain began a campaign to seize and search American ships to look for these
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For many years, Britain and France had been at war in Europe. Due to this many of these were blocked, preventing neutral American ships from easily trading their cargo
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This US President declared war of Great Britain
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