Americans held the balance of power between Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River after the American Revolution.
US and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783 to end the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the boundaries between US and Great Britain territories, including Great Britain's concession of the trans-Appalachian west region to the US.
He tried to resolve it by sending unarmed supply ships to the fort. However is was unsuccessful.
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<span>The war of 1812 was politically divisive due to the different demographic and political factions who supported or abhorred the idea of conflict. The war was much more favored by Democratic-Republicans in the Southern and Western United States then it was Federalist in both New England and the South. Add to this that there wasn't a national cause or anger to unite people behind the war, and it just wasn't something a large portion of the population wanted to do. Also, because of these divisions America came into the war sorely unprepared to achieve victory with an army that was largely disorganized and unsupported by the militias.</span>
