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8.1 Read the Document The Treaty of Ghent (1814)

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the BAttLe of neW orLeAns This engraving by Joseph Yeager (c. 1815) depicts the Battle of New Orleans
and the death of British Major General Edward Pakenham. The death of the British commander was a turning point
in the battle, in which more than 2000 British soldiers were killed or wounded at the hands of General Andrew
Jackson and the American army.

Quick Check people of the United States a much needed source of pride. Even in military terms,
How well did the Americans fare the battle was significant. If the British had managed to occupy New Orleans, the key
militarily against the British during to the trade of the Mississippi River Valley, they would have been difficult to dislodge
the War of 1812? regardless of the peace treaty.

hartford Convention An assembly
of New England Federalists who Hartford Convention: The Demise of the Federalists
met in Hartford, Connecticut,
in December 1814 to protest In late 1814, leading New England politicians, most of them moderate Federalists,
President James Madison’s foreign gathered in Hartford, Connecticut, to discuss relations between their region and the
policy in the War of 1812, which had federal government in what became known as the Hartford Convention. Delegates
undermined commercial interests were angry and hurt by the Madison administration’s seeming insensitivity to the eco-
in the North. They proposed nomic interests of the New England states. The embargo had soured New Englanders
amending the Constitution to
prevent future presidents from on Republican foreign policy. The War of 1812 added insult to injury. When British
declaring war without a two-thirds troops occupied the coastal villages of Maine, then part of Massachusetts, the president
majority in Congress. did nothing to drive them out.
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