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>> neither country (America or Great Britain) gained any territory
>> Treaty of Ghent essentially returned the status quo
>> widely considered as a pointless war

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War of 1812

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>> meeting called by the Massachusetts legislature that included Federalists from New England states
>> purpose was to discuss the war and how it essentially caused the decline of their party and region
>> December 1814
>> many Democratic-Republicans viewed the convention as an act of treason
>> New England states threatened to secede from the union

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¹"Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpation’s and accumulated wrongs, or, opposing force to force in the defense of their national rights...is a solemn question which the Constitution wisely confides to the legislative department of the Government"
²"We behold our vessels, freighted
with the products of our soil and industry, or returning with the honest proceeds of them, wrested from their lawful destinations, confiscated by prize courts no longer the organs of public law but the instruments of arbitrary edicts, and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets..."

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>> Madison advocated for the war
>> placed the decision in the hands of Congress in order to preserve equal separation of power¹

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                                  James Madison

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                                  James Madison

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                                  Madison's Involvement in the War of 1812 

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                                  Madison's Involvement in the War of 1812 

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>> 1751 - 1836
>> "Father of the Bill of Rights"
>> Democratic Republican
>> Advocate of the Constitution
>> President from 1809-1817

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>> June 1812 - February 1815
>> The United States vs. The British and their Indian Allies
>> "Second War for American Independence"
>> Began with American invasion of Canada in the summer of 1812
>> nicknamed "Mr. Madison's War"
>> New Englanders generally opposed the war and its expenses
>> militias of New England states refused to go into war
>> preceded by the Napoleonic Wars and the French Revolution, caused conflict between Great Britain and France
Cause:
>> Great Britain refused to stop seizing American ships that were trading with France²

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>> ended the war, signed on December 24th, 1814
>> American and British representatives met in Belgium to sign the treaty