Was the War of 1812 Pointless? :: American America History

Was the fight of 1812 Pointless?The War of 1812 proved to be the most serious challenge to face the United States since the countrys birth. This Second war of Independence perhaps changed American history as we know it though. This essay will discuss the causes for this war assessing whether there in truth were valid reasons for the United States and Britain going to war or whether the whole 1812 war was just born out of pointless aggression The war of 1812 was a very unnecessary war. It broke out just as integrity of its chief causes (The Orders in Council) was removed and its greatest battle (New Orleans) was fought just by and by peace was signed. The war was unnecessary from a British point of look but for the Americans it was inescapable. The Royal Navy had kidnapped 3,800 American sailors and pressed them into service. The Orders In Council had disadvantaged the United States of a profitable trade with France and can be seen as having ruthlessly subordinated American eco nomic interests to the political interests of the British Empire. American farmers alike blamed the orders, perhaps unfairly, for a fall in agricultural prices that produced a depression in the West in the years immediately out front the war. On the frontier it was universally believed that Indian restlessness war affected up by British agents although really American oppression has to be seen as a big cause of this too. Americas war with Britain seemed inevitable although the Americans did everything they decently could to avoid it, although there seemed to be endless provocation by Britain, for slip in 1807 when a British frigate, the leopard opened fire on an American frigate the Chesapeake. The choice before America, Jefferson the former president and his successor Madison agree was war or submission - to fight or to undo unmatchable of the main achievements of the revolution and accept total defeat in external affairs to England. As John Quincy Adams put it It was not a theme of dollars and cents, no alternative was left but war or the apostasy of our right as an independent nation The offences committed against the United States were the study provocations for the war, reasons other therefore vindication can be regarded as rationalisation. there was an obvious anger for what British had done to America and many Americans unless wanted revenge but the war was fought for much more then that.