The Second Revolution

Noninterference Little government involvement in economic affairs and its direction.

 1804 Thomas Jefferson re- elected  12 th amendment  Fighting in Europe between England and France  Impressment of US Sailors (captured and forced to fight for England)

 Jefferson cut off all trade with Europe  Hoped to prevent impressment because ships wouldn’t be at sea.  Hurt the US economy

 James Madison elected

 “The Prophet” rejects ‘Euro..’ values  Tecumseh formed a confederation of Indians, won support of British  His brother, Prophet led an attack on US  US attacked the Indians at Tippecanoe (led by William Henry Harrison)

 Because of Impressment and the alignment with the Indians, many wanted to fight the British  Known as War Hawks  Led by John C. Calhoun (SC) and Henry Clay (KY)

 US Army and Navy were weak  1814: burning of White House, DC  Christmas Eve 1814 decl. Armistice  Treaty of Ghent  All old boundaries between the US and British in N. America restored

 Greatest victory of US  January 1815 Battle of New Orleans makes Andrew Jackson famous

In 1814 we took a little trip Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip We took a little bacon and we took a little beans and we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans

We fired our guns but the British kept a comin’, There wasn’t as many as there was a while ago. Fired once more and they began a runnin’, On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. We ran through the briars and we ran through the brambles and we ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go. Ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ‘em, on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We looked down the river and we see’d the British come And there must have been 100 of ‘em, beating on the drum They stepped so high and they stepped so well, we stood by our cotton bales and didn’t say a thing

We fired our guns but the British kept a comin’, There wasn’t as many as there was a while ago. Fired once more and they began a runnin’, On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. We ran through the briars and we ran through the brambles and we ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go. Ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ‘em, on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

Old Hickory said we could take ‘em by surprise if we didn’t fire our muskets till we looked ‘em in the eyes We held our fire till we see’d their faces well, we opened up our squirrel guns and really gave ‘em hell

We fired our guns but the British kept a comin’, There wasn’t as many as there was a while ago. Fired once more and they began a runnin’, On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. We ran through the briars and we ran through the brambles and we ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go. Ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ‘em, on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

We fired our cannons till the barrels melted down, then we grabbed an alligator and we fired another round We filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind, and when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

We fired our guns but the British kept a comin’, There wasn’t as many as there was a while ago. Fired once more and they began a runnin’, On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. We ran through the briars and we ran through the brambles and we ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn’t go. Ran so fast that the hounds couldn’t catch ‘em, on down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico