Frienemies

=Questions= Reading the text book, my partner and I had came up with a couple questions that we thought could be researched and the answers would clarify our thoughts on the whole subject. Who were the enemies? Why would the Indians take guns from the British? And ..Why were the opinions of war different throughout the Americans? =Gathering and Evaluating Evidence= These are my notes for my partner that I thought were suitable to explain my process of finding the evidence for my conclusion.

"***Mr.Bruce had told me to keep in mind the whole thing happening to do with why the New Englanders and federalist didn't want war, but the southerners did. He said that it had something to do with our research question*** **He showed me this->'On June 18, 1812, the United States declared war on Great Britain in the midst of the Napoleonic Wars. This Boston newspaper, the Colombian Sentinel, published on September 5, 1812, reveals New Englanders’ concerns over the international crisis as well as concerns at home. Click here to launch this interactive feature.'** =Interpretation= From my understanding, the British were the enemies of the Americans. Reading the text book, I picked out the bits and pieces of information that concluded that the British had set up a trade in which involved the Indians. Around the time of the war of 1812, the British had given the Native American Indians guns to use against the American colonies who were trying to expand their growth in land. When the British did this, it gave the American’s more reasons to go to war with Great Britain. But there was something else in the way. The federalist and New Englanders did not want war, along with the President at the time, James Madison, who was following George Washington's idea of isolationism, did not want to go straight into war. When I found evidence in a newsletter that stated the differences in people throughout America. The newsletters showed me that the New Englanders would have lost their work if the war had started and the trading with the other nations had stopped. Yet, the Americans ships were already being ‘impressed’ by the British and their ships (And people) were being taken. The British giving the guns to the Indians, made the ‘Westerners’ think that war was the correct answer for the solution. Although Mr. Madison had already made a deal with Britain, that we would stop trading with France, for the stop of American impressment. In both of the articles I discovered that even after the treaty passed by, Napoleon still gave order to take the Americans ships that were being used for trading. Therefore, it gave Madison another reason to “abandon the thought of isolationism". A little while after this had happened, the war of 1812 began.
 * The link is below vvv**
 * https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/age-jefferson-and-madison/interactives/news-from-1812**
 * My opinion is that we had an apparent reason to start the war with Great Britain, and Mr.Bruce said it was the right thing to do.** But I also think that Britain had a lot of things they needed to fix, but didn't really want to. They were just the problem starters.
 * The link to the Newsletters is right here. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/swf/1812_newspaper/index.html"
 * Our text book has more evidence which led up to this our text book says that the Americans had trouble with the Barbary pirates which made them more angry also the textbook said that the Leopard a British war ship opened fire on an American ship because it would not let them board which made the Americans more angry.
 * As an assignment in class Mr. Bruce had us read the previous dilemmas to our own. As Mason and I read, we learned more about the conflict between British and France. This gave us reasons to why British wanted the trading between the United States and France to end. Which also leads up to the war..... and the further impressment on American sailors.
 * The news letter that I tried my best to read, stated a whole other side to our question that neither Mason or I could conclude. We did however come up with our very well prepared conclusion below.;3