War+with+the+British

toc =Questions= Write a paragraph or so that states your paragraph, explains why you chose that question, and what other questions you considered but decided against. Our question that we chose was "How did the war of 1812 effect us in the long run?". We chose this question because the things that James Madison did affected our government and how it works today. Other Questions we considered were "Why did Madison offer a deal to France and Britain?", and "Why did people in the west and south favor war?". We didn't choose these questions because we figured out that they were to simple and didn't help us answer the dilemma. =Gathering and Evaluating Evidence= Start by explaining where you began and what that turned up. Share the struggles you faced in this stage. We gathered information from our first question we did not choose and there were about four or five completely different answers that did not help us. Then we moved on to the second question and found one answer but it was too simple. The struggles we faced were finding letters on the dilemma that we had chosen. Then share with us the documents used. Describe how you considered source, context, corroboration, etc. What questions and answers came and went in this stage? We considered source, context, collaboration, etc. We separated the documents into smaller sections and analyzed them one at a time. After we analyzed all the smaller sections we picked out the information that was helpful to answer our question. We analyzed and evaluated them by reading through the documents closely and interpreting them to our understanding to see if they would help us come to a conclusion for our question. If the documents were useful to us and could potentially help come to a conclusion then we copied the links and pasted them (below). Once we read the first document we looked at the author who was James Madison, then we looked when it was written. The document was written on November 5, 1811. After we did this we felt that this document was in the time range to help answer our question. We looked at the author and the date it was written for the second document. The author was James Madison and it was written on November 4, 1812. The third document we have listed, the author was also James Madison and was written on December 3, 1816. We had chosen these documents because they were written by the same person, the first document was before the war, the second document was during the war, and the third document was one year after the war of 1812. These documents appealed to us because of the time period. In our perspective, if there was a document for before, during, and after the war it is easier to tell what the big change or effect there was. 

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/state-of-the-union-address-22/ http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/state-of-the-union-address-23/ http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/state-of-the-union-address-26/ =Interpretation= What did you find? How do you feel about your conclusion? Was your conclusion surprising? The documents helped us answer our question is by how we started our shipping and trade before the war, how it changed during the war and how it changed after the war. We found that the war of 1812 effected us in a positive and negative way. One way it effected us positively is by opening our shipping and trade with other countries besides Britain and France and we weren't isolated from all the other countries anymore. The way it effected us negatively is that it created conflict. Britain didn't want us trading with France and France didn't want us to trade with Britain. The conflict between them created the war of 1812. In the long run it affected our shipping and trade. Our conclusion did not surprise us because we had read some of the information before and after the war.