Was the War of 1812 Pointless? :: American America History

Was the War of 1812 Pointless?The War of 1812 proved to be the nigh serious challenge to face the United States since the countrys birth. This Second fight of Independence perhaps changed Ameri lavatory history as we know it though. This essay will discuss the causes for this struggle assessing whether there actually were valid reasons for the United States and Britain going to war or whether the whole 1812 war was equitable born out of pointless onslaught The war of 1812 was a very unnecessary war. It broke out just as one of its chief causes (The Orders in Council) was removed and its greatest scrap (New Orleans) was fought just after peace was signed. The war was unnecessary from a British point of view but for the the Statesns it was inescapable. The Royal Navy had kidnapped 3,800 American sailors and touch them into service. The Orders In Council had deprived the United States of a profitable trade with France and can be seen as having ruthlessly subordinated American ec onomic interests to the political interests of the British Empire. American farmers also blamed the orders, perhaps unfairly, for a fall in agricultural prices that produced a depression in the West in the age immediately before the war. On the frontier it was universally believed that Indian disquietude war stirred up by British agents although really American oppression has to be seen as a big cause of this too. Americas war with Britain seemed inevitable although the Americans did everything they decently could to avoid it, although there seemed to be endless exhortation by Britain, for example in 1807 when a British frigate, the leopard opened burn down on an American frigate the Chesapeake. The choice before America, Jefferson the former president and his heritor Madison agreed was war or submission - to fight or to undo one of the main achievements of the revolution and accept total pour down in international affairs to England. As John Quincy Adams put it It was not a m atter of dollars and cents, no alternative was left but war or the abandonment of our right as an independent nation The offences move against the United States were the major provocations for the war, reasons other then vindication can be regarded as rationalisation. There was an obvious anger for what British had done to America and many Americans merely wanted revenge but the war was fought for frequently more then that.