Congress had not properly funded or prepared an army, and a number of the states did not support what was referred to as “Mr. Madison's War” and would not allow their militias to join the campaign
Treaty of Ghent ended decades of bitter partisan infighting in government and ushered in the so-called “Era of Good Feelings.”
Although the treaty said nothing about two of the key issues that started the war–the rights of neutral U.S. vessels and the impressment of U.S. sailors–it did open up the Great Lakes region to American expansion and was hailed as a diplomatic victory in the United States.
