Remembering+the+War+of+1812

toc =Questions= Question 1:Was life better or worse after the war? Question 2:What happened leading up to the war? The reason we chose these two question's is because we wanted to know what happened leading up to the war and was life after war better than it was before and the reason we thought that there was more than America just going to war with Briton over nothing but land so we figured there was something else that happened and for our other question we wondered if the conditions got better because if they didn't then why did we go to war.

=Gathering and Evaluating Evidence= We started with asking what the name of the treaty was and we figured that out pretty easily so we decided to change the question to "Was the life after the war better or worse?' and our second question that we asked is "What happened leading up to the war of 1812?". For our first ques we found our facts from secondary sources on the internet such as [|__History.com__][|__wikipedia.com__][|__PBS.org__][|__Eighteentweleve.com__][|__Visit1812.com__][|__War of 1812.com__]__www.loc.gov.__ For our second question we used the textbook and we also used some of the websites we used for our first question. Some of the things that happened before the war is British were impressing our sailors and Thomas Jefferson did not want to pay the pirates so he sent a small fleet of ships to protect American ships then when that failed he decided to propose the Embargo act and that halted all trading with foreign country's. Then after the war we learned that America had 24 ships and got 10,000,000 acres back. Most of the information that we got came from the Wikipedia page but all it talked about was the treaty so we got the war facts from the textbook and War of 1812.com but the all the other websites gave us additional facts that were both about the war and the treaty.

=Interpretation= Some of the things that we found out about the first question is that America got about 10,000,000 acres near Michigan they also gained about 6 ships from Briton the white house also had to be restored because of the damage it had taken from the British and although the U.S. did gain territory from Spain. Britain promised to return the freed black slaves that they had taken. In actuality, a few years later Britain instead paid the United States $1,204,960 for them.So in conclusion we think that after the war the conditions were better because they got more land back and had a bigger navy. The answer that we got for our second question is the things that happened before the war of 1812 is the British were impressing American ships and kidnapping are sailors. Also Jefferson hated war but he also hated paying tribute. American faced a threat of North Africa piracy or robbery at sea. It became even harder when Britain started kidnapping/ Impressing our sailors.