The Key events that caused the War of 1812

The United States declared War on Great Britain on June 12, 1812. The war was declared as an end result of extended and aggressive clashes with Great Britain. The War of 1812 was not founded on a single reason; it was started for political, commercial and patriotic reasons. “It was always unpopular with a great number of the American people and it went badly for the Americans on the whole, but that was settled finally in 1814 on terms at least mildly favorable to the United States.”1
The key events and causes of the War of 1812 all started in 1803. In Europe The Napoleonic war put Britain and France at war that affected trade with the United States. Napolean kept out British goods from “fortress Europe.”2 American ships were caught in the middle as the British responded with a blockade. “American ships were seized by both sides, Great Britain seized 1,000 United States ships and France seized 500 U.S. ships, and American sailors were impressed into the British navy” ...