Indians+Affect+Madison's+Decision

toc =Questions= W e decided to use this question because there's more that impacted Madison's decision than just the impressment of the British on American shipping and trade. We felt like the natives decision to side with the British also made impact in Madison's decision to declare war and break Washington's idea of isolationism. Other questions that we considered were what caused James Madison to trust Napoleon when he made the compromise? Another was what was the main thing that impacted Madison's decision to declare war?(Which is closely related to our question).
 * What caused Tecumseh and his followers to side with the British, and how did it impact Madison's decision of breaking Washington's idea of isolationism?**



=Gathering and Evaluating Evidence= We began searching for evidence of letters from Indian leaders like Tecumseh and The Prophet, to the British, (or vice-versa) that showed the Natives intent to help the British, and what offers the British have made to Tecumseh to get Indians on their side. The results weren't the best, there really wasn't much evidence of contact between Indians and Britain, but there were multiple secondary sources that showed us promises of a independent country for Indians or land and wealth for Tecumseh from Britain,but there wasn't much in terms of primary sources.

Since we don't have Primary sources there wasn't really any main evidence used. A couple of sources we did use, like wikipedia, will be below. But, we found that The Prophet was strongly on the British side, but Tecumseh wasn't as much. We learned that British promised land and support in terms of defense to Tecumseh and the prophet. [|Tecumseh's Wikipedia] War of 1812 [|The Prophet (Aka Tenskwatawa)] [|Video about 1812 and Indians]

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=Interpretation= We found that ultimately, the British size and promises were the main reason Tecumseh sided with the British, but we've found a new possibility.We think that Indians may have connections or are sticking with the British because of the treaty of Easton in the 7 years war. We feel like that decision has changed Madison's decision.I am surprised I could find so much about a topic there's very little about. Although there was other things that influenced Madison's decision to fight Britain again,but Ih feel like this is one that greatly affected it because if the Indians. We found that the main things that drew the Indians to the British were promises for things like land and protection and there also may be a connection from the treat of Easton during the seven years war that could have influenced some Indians to stay with the British along with Britain's size which at that point was much larger than any other.

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