jun 8, 1812 - War of 1812 Key Concept 4.3,I

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His choice to buy Louisiana was a wise one because the British were already riling up the Native Americans to attack all American citizens. The War of 1812 commenced with the Native Americans being given tools and weapons from the British to weaken the American forces and the impressing of American sailors. Pressure from the Warhawks whose aims were to start a conquest of British Canada and to eliminate the Native American threat on Spanish Florida frontier. Congress declared war in 1812 against the British for the refusal of peaceful coercion sent by the U.S. This declaration would divide the country into Federalist turned pro-British and those who were against the British rule.