<span>On January 8, 1815, the British marched against New Orleans, hoping that by capturing the city they could separate Louisiana from the rest of the United States. Pirate Jean Lafitte, however, had warned the Americans of the attack, and the arriving British found militiamen under General Andrew Jackson strongly entrenched at the Rodriquez Canal. In two separate assaults, the 7,500 British soldiers under Sir Edward Pakenham were unable to penetrate the U.S. defenses, and Jackson’s 4,500 troops, many of them expert marksmen from Kentucky and Tennessee, decimated the British lines. In half an hour, the British had retreated, General Pakenham was dead, and nearly 2,000 of his men were killed, wounded, or missing. U.S. forces suffered only EIGHT KILLED and 13 wounded.</span>
<u>Answer:</u>
The strong politics of radical reconstruction was largely ineffective in changing the attitudes of White southerners towards African Americans because the white southerners were not mentally ready to accept African Americans as socially equal human beings.
<u>Explanation:</u>
- The efforts taken by radical Republicans in the 1860s and 1870s in order to establish a society without the prevalence of racial discrimination mostly proved unsuccessful.
- The fact that the African Americans were relieved from slavery forever angered most white southerners and culminated in violent clashes between the two.
C. the closing of the First Bank of the United States
