Past Two Days: April 1

Today, we discussed the causes of the War of 1812 and we had to decide which event, in our opinion, was the main cause. We were given four choices: impressment, the Chesapeake Affair, the Orders in Council, and incitement.
We were assigned to discuss which the event we chose in this blog post.
I concluded that incitement was a huge issue and led to the start of the war. Incitement was when the British gave the Amer-Indians weapons to use against the Americans. Naturally, this made America angry and frightened at the same time, and in order to extinguish these feelings, a war was in order. The fact that the British went behind America's back, even though America was neutral and was not involved in Britain's and France's past disputes, influenced many people to try to fight back their safety. People panic when they feel threatened, and this is exactly what America felt when they heard that the Indians could attack them while they were at their weak point and economic loss. I think that the other events added to the growing threat of war, but the involvement of weapons put things into immediate action.