https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi en-us 2019-02-26 01:25:19 UTC 2021-07-11 08:37:14 UTC hello@padlet.com kenmac3831 https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335168642 Causes of the War of 1812
The immediate causes of the War of 1812 were a series of economic sanctions taken by the British and French against the US as part of the Napoleonic Wars and American outrage at the British practice of impressment, especially after the Chesapeake incident of 1807.]]> 2019-02-26 01:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335168642 kenmac3831 https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335171010 War Hawks
A group of pro-war Republicans, led by Speaker of the House Henry Clay, argued that military force was the only option left to combat British imperiousness. These “War Hawks” were not a majority of the party, but over time, their influence acted on more skeptical party members.]]> 2019-02-26 01:41:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335171010 kenmac3831 https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335171824 Mary Pickersgill and Her American Flag
In the summer of 1813, Mary Pickersgill was contracted to sew two flags for Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland. The one that became the Star-Spangled Banner was a 30 x 42–foot garrison flag; the other was a 17 x 25–foot storm flag for use in inclement weather. Pickersgill, a thirty-seven-year-old widow, was an experienced maker of ships’ colors and signal flags. She filled orders for many of the military and merchant ships that sailed into Baltimore’s busy port.]]> 2019-02-26 01:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335171824 kenmac3831 https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335174200 USS Constiution
The USS Constitution, a 44-gun U.S. Navy frigate built to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli, is launched in Boston Harbor. The vessel performed commendably during the Barbary conflicts, and in 1805 a peace treaty with Tripoli was signed on the Constitution‘s deck.

]]> 2019-02-26 01:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335174200 kenmac3831 https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335177962 Burning of the White House
On this day in 1814, during the War of 1812 between the United States and England, British troops enter Washington, D.C. and burn the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1812.

]]> 2019-02-26 02:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335177962 kenmac3831 https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335178749 Dolley Madison
One of Washington, D.C.’s most successful hostesses, Dolley Madison used her social skills, charm and personal popularity to win over her husband’s political opponents and help advance his career. Dolley Madison helped to define the role of first lady and established many of the precedents that her successors would follow, including working with local charities and organizations on social issues important to her and overseeing the decoration of the executive mansion to reflect the importance of the presidency.]]> 2019-02-26 02:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335178749 kenmac3831 https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335179842 The defense of Fort McHenry
The lyrics come from the Defense of Fort McHenry, a poem written on September 14, 1814, by the then 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.]]> 2019-02-26 02:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335179842 kenmac3831 https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335180143 The Star Spangled Banner
The lyrics came from the Defense of Fort McHenry which was a poem written by Francis Key Scott after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy in Baltimore Harbor during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812
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The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Both sides signed it on December 24, 1814, in the city of Ghent, United Netherlands.

]]> 2019-02-26 02:16:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335181626 kenmac3831 https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335182238 The Battle of New Orleans
On January 8, 1815, the two sides met in what is remembered as one of the conflict’s biggest and most decisive engagements. In the bloody Battle of New Orleans, future President Andrew Jackson and a motley assortment of militia fighters, frontiersmen, slaves, Indians and even pirates weathered a frontal assault by a superior British force, inflicting devastating casualties along the way. The victory vaulted Jackson to national stardom, and helped foil plans for a British invasion of the American frontier.]]> 2019-02-26 02:18:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335182238 kenmac3831 https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335363990 Naval Battles
The US Navy was an eighteen year old institution that barely had a dozen ships. The British Navy had been active for years and could boast over five hundred active warships.  ]]> 2019-02-26 14:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kenmac3831/8q4xacffrcvi/wish/335363990