War Hawks!!!

Hello. It is me again, the reporter who travelled back in time. Today I am going to tell you about War Hawks. 
The War Hawks are a more immediate cause of the War of 1812.  Made up of a group of American Politicians, from the Western & Southern States, the War hawks believed that the United States should expand it's borders. 
 British North America and the First Nations in the Ohio Valley were just obstacles in their way. The War Hawks thought that they should take over these territories . 


Here is a famous statement by former US president Thomas Jefferson in 1812.
'The Acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighbourhood of Quebec, will be mere matter of marching, and will give us experience for the attack of Halifax the next and the final expulsion of England from the American Continent."

Now what I think this means:
Well, expulsion means depriving membership, or expelling someone. So the American's want to gain Canada, so they plan to attack Halifax, which will expel the British from what they American's think is  their own Continent. 
The 4th President of the United States, James Madison, was greatly influenced by The War Hawks, and on June 19th 1812, he declared war on Britain.


Thanks for reading my articles. I hope that I will find a way out of here soon, and I can get back to writing boring old news stories in 2012!