4/1/13

Today we discussed the reasons America went to war in 1812. I thought the most important reason was the order in councils. Everything else had an effect on the individual American and not on the country as a whole. Yes, I do agree that taking a sailor away from his family to fight for a country that is not his own is horrible but I thought that the Orders in Council had a greater effect. They made America's economy go down the drain because they were not allowed to trade with France or Britain. Britain made these rules and that is not right. American won their freedom because they wanted to get away from rules like that, trying to control their lives. Now it was happening all over again, threatening the freedom they had only just recently won.