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Major Events Leading To The War Of 1812

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The major events leading to the war of 1812 are U.S. shipping was being attacked, Britain required licenses for ships bound for Europe, France confiscated cargo from licensed ships, many British sailors became adopted US citizens and left British ships and joined American crews and British Navy kidnapped these sailors off American ships and had them rejoin the British navy. Embargo act of 1807 halted all trade with Europe embargo is a government ban on trade with other countries, 1809 the non-intercourse act promised the US will resume trade with Britain and France once US neutrality is respected, and in 1810 Congress replaced this with Macon's bill #2 offering exclusive trade to whichever nation 1st honored US neutrality. But Great Britain
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