Both the US and Canada emerged from the war with a sense of national pride and unity. The widespread belief in the US that what is now Canada would welcome US annexation was also widely disproved as its citizens overwhelmingly united against the US invaders. In Britain this war was largely overshadowed because of the war against Napoleon. The War of 1812 resulted in no geographical changes and no policy changes.
2006-12-20 09:09:59
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answered by Anonymous
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Results of the War of 1812:
The War of 1812 is significant to United States history in a number of ways. The War, and our not losing it, reaffirmed American Independence. This was the second time we had gone to war with Great Britain and the second time we had not lost. Never again would our Independence as a nation be called into question. Second, the war convinced the nation that we must have a standing army. Since we had been caught unprepared for was militarily and the war had, in many respects, been humiliating to the U.S. (ie. the invasion and burning of Washington) we saw the necessity of a standing army (it was then set at 10,000 men which was three times the army under President Jefferson). The war also served to improve our economy as it stimulated manufacturing. Before and during the war our trade was severely interrupted and negatively affected which resulted in the need for Americans to rely on themselves to make many of the products they had previously depended on importation for. Finally, the War of 1812 resulted in the death of the Federalist Party. During the war, the Federalist Party had been vocally opposed to the war and had even gone so far as to hold a convention in Hartford, Connecticut during which they criticized the war, the government, and even threatened to secede from the Union. At the same time this convention was going on, the peace treaty was being negotiated so that the Federalist party was criticized and this helped lead to the party's demise.
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2006-12-20 17:07:16
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answered by Littlebit 6
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Results of the War of 1812 between the Great Britain and the United States involved no geographical changes, and no major policy changes. However some causes of the war had disappeared with the destruction of the power of Indian tribes and the end (in practice) of the British policy of impressment. The American grievance against British support for Indian hostilities ended as the Indians were defeated. The widespread belief in the US that British North America would welcome US annexation was also widely disproved as its citizens overwhelmingly united against the US invaders. The psychological impacts on America and Canada were important: both emerged from the war with a sense of national unity and pride. In Britain the importance of the conflict was largely overshadowed by the war in against Napolean.
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Later scholars have questioned the strategy and tactics of the United States in the War of 1812, the war's tangible results, and even the wisdom of commencing it in the first place. To contemporary Americans, however, the striking naval victories and Andrew Jackson's victory over the British at New Orleans created a reservoir of “good feeling” on which Monroe was able to draw.
Abetting the mood of nationalism was the foreign policy of the United States after the war. Florida was acquired from Spain (1819) in negotiations the success of which owed more to Andrew Jackson's indifference to such niceties as the inviolability of foreign borders and the nation's evident readiness to back him up than it did to diplomatic finesse. The Monroe Doctrine (1823), actually a few phrases inserted in a long presidential message, declared that the United States would not become involved in European affairs and would not accept European interference in the Americas; its immediate effect on other nations was slight, and that on its own citizenry was impossible to gauge, yet its self-assured tone in warning off the Old World from the New reflected well the nationalist mood that swept the nation.
Internally, the decisions of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall in such cases as McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) and Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) promoted nationalism by strengthening Congress and national power at the expense of the states. The congressional decision to charter the second Bank of the United States (1816) was explained in part by the nation's financial weaknesses, exposed by the War of 1812, and in part by the intrigues of financial interests. The readiness of Southern Jeffersonians—former strict constructionists—to support such a measure indicates, too, an amazing degree of national feeling. Perhaps the clearest sign of a new sense of national unity was the victorious Republican Party, standing in solitary splendour on the national political horizon, its long-time foes the Federalists vanished without a trace (on the national level) and Monroe, the Republican standard-bearer, reelected so overwhelmingly in 1820 that it was long believed that the one electoral vote denied him had been held back only in order to preserve George Washington's record of unanimous selection.
2006-12-20 17:11:32
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answered by The Answer Man 5
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THE 1812 OVERTURE!!!!!!!!!!!! rock-on!
2006-12-20 17:09:53
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answered by gggjoob 5
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Everyone died.
2006-12-20 17:10:20
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answered by generalrop 2
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