Were the effects of the war of 1812 mostly positive or mostly negative for the united sates

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Dempsey

8 January, 00:33

Were the effects of the war of 1812 mostly positive or mostly negative for the united sates

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Yaritza Reeves · Answer 1

Yaritza Reeves 8 January, 02:24

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mostly postive in my opinion

Tiki · Answer 2

In the United States, the effects of the War of 1812 were mostly positive.

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The War of 1812 was a military conflict between the United States on the one hand, and Great Britain and its North American colonies in present-day Canada on the other, which took place from 1812 to 1815. The war started after Thomas Jefferson - President of the US - wanted to stay out of European conflicts. He wanted to devote himself to building the new nation, doubling US territory under his rule. The United States also wanted to continue to trade unhindered with Napoleon Bonaparte's France and with other Napoleonic-controlled countries in mainland Europe. Britain did not want to recognize this neutrality right, in response to which Jefferson declared a trade embargo.

In 1812, Jefferson's successor James Madison declared war on Britain with the primary objective of breaking the Indian-British coalition and liberating all of Canada from British hands. During this war, on April 27, 1813 York - the then administrative center of Canada - was burned down by the Americans; on the night of August 24-25, 1814, Washington was occupied by the British and several public buildings, including the White House, were burned to the ground.

This war was finally ended with the Treaty of Ghent, drawn up in 1814 and ratified by the Americans in 1815. English supremacy at sea was not curbed. Nor did the US succeed in conquering Canada. However, the British stopped supporting their Native American allies so that the colonization by the Americans of Native American territory could no longer be prevented by the original inhabitants. Furthermore, a real American national feeling arose during and after the conflict, reinforced by several heroic stories from the war. This led to the next president, James Monroe, proclaiming the Monroe doctrine named after him. This kept the US out of any European conflict until the Spanish-American War in 1898.