impressments.
6. However, Britain responded with a naval blockade, raiding ships and ruining American
economic life such as fishing.
III.
The Treaty of Ghent
1.At first, the confident British made sweeping demands for a neutralized Indian buffer state in
the Great Lakes region, control of the Great Lakes, and a substantial part of conquered Maine, but the Americans, led by John Quincy Adams, refused. As American victories piled up, though, the British reconsidered.
2.The Treat of Ghent, signed…
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