What were the reasons for why the US entered into the The War of 1812? What happened?

Question

I also want to know How the war made the career of a future president of the United States..

*thanks*

Answer 1

The USA entered because Britain was practicing impressment, which is when you take merchant ships of another country, and force them to serve in your navy. The 2nd reason is that the British were encouraging Native Americans to attack American settlements, and Americans felt that they were not being treated like an independent country.

I assume you're talking about Andrew Jackson for the president. Jackson marched down through present day Mississippi, won some battles over the Native Americans, and then crushed the British at the Battle of New Orleans. His victories gave him national attention, and made him an American hero.

Answer 2

Red4tribe is right. One reason for the war was the impressment of US citizens by the Royal Navy. These were sailors on merchant ships, who were taken.  

The actions of the native peoples in the west was also a justification, in fact, one of the reasons the members of Congress who represented western interests, like Mr. Clay of Kentucky, were called "War Hawks".  There were numerous tribes in the west, some of whom took action against the frontier settlements. The massacre of the soldiers and civilians after the surrender of Ft. Dearborn is one example. Tecumseh was an unusual native leader, in that he and his brother Tenskatawa were urging many different tribes to join together to drive out the whites. The "platform" of eradicating white men's goods to get back to a kind of "pure Indian-ness" was not original with the Shawnee Prophet, but it did find a common bond with many native leaders over the next eight decades.

Andrew Jackson was a Tennessee Senator who had voted against a tribute to George Washington because he believed the former President to be pro-British. It tells you something about "old Hickory", a nickname he got from refusing to ride when on a long hungry march back home after the end of the Creek Wars, a man his age, sick, and still walking in the mud with his soldiers.  He was made General of the Tennessee volunteers, a force that included numerous people from the area, including Kentuckians and most likely some settlers from Mississippi and Alabama.

After defeating the Creeks, with a lot of help from the Cherokee, he returned home, forced to pay his men's way by mortgaging the Hermitage, and getting hit with a relapse of an old illness (he'd had malaria in a British POW camp as a boy) and then found he was ordered to raise a force to defend New Orleans from a suspected British invasion. He did so, and defeated a force under Hugh Packenham on January 8, 1815, just two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent ended the war.  This was very nearly the only victory of American arms in the war, and it made him a hero. He rode that wave into the White House in March 1829.