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Why War Of 1812 Happened?

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The war of 1812 is one to remember. The war happened between the British and the Americans. This happened because the British stopped trade with the Americans due to a war between the British and the French. Another reason was because of the impressment that the British started against the American sailors. For these reasons, the war of 1812 happened. Document A talks about The impressment of Americans. The impressment ( men being captured and forced to join the Royal Navy ) of American sailers was not the Americans fault. The British wanted people in the Royal Navy so they thought it was ok to just take our men. Which its not. The Americans were very upset about this. That as one reason why the war of 1812 started. In document B, it talks
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In document B it clearly shows George Washington asking the powerful and well dressed men for help, also you know they can help because they are a part of congress. It was kind of pathetic they are grown men and are in tattered clothes with holes and some sick with no shoes or anything but it wasn’t like that for long. Still the Patriots had willingness to fight for their country which held them together. Also it was quoted in the caption in document B that “The committee of five congressmen stayed several weeks and was helpful in getting more food and clothing to the soldiers.

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Document B was from a Pennsylvania newspaper, and it called for the Americans to fight harder to expel the British from the Americas. The author wanted to politically separate America from Britain and pleaded for the American people to make this political change. After the war officially ended with signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1783, people started to realize that there were issues with the Articles of Confederation. In the next few years many people argued how to fix these issues and how the country should grow. Document G illustrated some of these problems.

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Document B: “If you ONCE admit, that Great Britain may lay duties upon her exportations to us, for the purpose of levying money on us only, she then will have nothing to do but lay those duties on the articles which she prohibits us to manufacture- and the tragedy of American Liberty is finished.” The taxes are destructive to the liberty of America, and only help britain get more money than the plenty they have compared to the colonies. Document E: “Our petitions have only been answered by repeated injury.” Even when America makes deals to Britain, Britain just hurts America even more wtth worse acts and taxes. Britain never made taxes to help the colonies strengthen them, but to get themselves even more rich than

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