Question

Madison believed that the U.S. had to go to war with british for all of the following reasons except

Answer 1

Answer:

• Get the British to revoke their Orders in Council, which placed harsh trade restrictions on the Americans.

• Get the British to stop the impressment of American sailors into the Royal Navy.

• Defend Americans' rights to freedom of the seas .

Explanation:

The Impressment of Sailors

Impressment of sailors was the operation of Britain's Royal Navy of sending officers to board American ships, examine its crew, and seize the sailors that were found guilty of being runaways from British ships.  

occurrences of impressment are often recognized as one of the causes of the War of 1812. And while it is true that impressment occurred on a regular basis in the first decade of the 19th century, the exercises was not always seen as a awfully significant problem.

It was widely known that vast numbers of British sailors did abandon from British warships, frequently because of the hard regulations and miserable surroundings endured by seamen in the Royal Navy.  

The impressment of sailors was definitely one of the causes of the War of 1812.

Trade Restrictions of the Americans

With the early Englishmen that settled in Jamestown, Virginia, and Plymouth, Massachusetts, England did little to direct their trade. As the colonies got more prosperous, however, England began to enforce its mercantile ideologies. A string of laws were passed in 1660s known as the Navigation Acts. They were established to make the Americans depend on the manufactured products of England. The colonists, of course, were expected to buy more from England than they sold and pay the gap(difference) in gold and silver. Therefore, England forbade all non-English ships from trading with colonies.

Freedom of the seas

A challenge to the discipline of freedom of the seas arose soon after the conclusion of the revolutionary war. In 1784,  American commercial shipping in the Mediterranean, lacking the shielding of he British navy, came under attack from the North African Kingdoms along what was known as the Barbary Coast.

EXCEPT

The federalists opposed the war, they viewed the war as way to further the interests of the Republicans. The federalists also feared that the war would through the nation into the arms of the Napoleon.