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toc =Questions= We chose why did federalist opposed to going to war and why did Madison go to war.We chose these questions because we thought they would be the hardest to find and answer.We didn't chose the other ones because they would be to easy to find a answer for.

=Gathering and Evaluating Evidence= The struggles we had were finding the truth from the not so truthful sources and to do that we created a page to put evidence on to sort it out then put it into this page. [] http://www.warof1812.net/ The questions and answer we came up with were hard to find because we were doing a lot of outside class time to get the page ready to go. How we gathered evidence was we goggled the war of 1812. Then dug though the websites and they were mostly the same but the ones we didn't need we didn't use we determined which ones were helpful by going though our steps. How we evaluated evidence was that we looked over the evidence really fast then went though and read it more closely. As we did this we got a better understanding of how the war of 1812 started and ended.We went though the process that historians do the Sourcing, Contextualizing,Close reading, and Corroborating. Each of the sources had a little different meaning like one would say how Madison stayed isolated but those weren't true and we know that because he went to war with Britain then there were some that says he went to war which is true. 

 

=Interpretation= We found that everything that happened with the first two presidents kind of paved the road to the war of 1812.We think this because the first two tried to stay isolated but Madison wanted to a little different.We think they paved the way because they wanted a clean nation but didn't exactly get one. We took what we learned in class and took it to a better understanding of how we tried to work out a deal with Napoleon to get him to stop attacking our ships he agreed but then he told his men to keep attacking our ships.On top of that we were paying the Barbary pirates to keep them from attacking our ships and had paid them over two million dollars by the time Madison took office in 1808 and by that time the embargo acted had been  repealed.This is how the war of 1812 started was that Madison wasn't happy so he declared war on Great Britain.Madison and his office mates felt that it was time to do something about Napoleon and his crew attacking us and so did the people. Slideshow: media type="custom" key="25236244"