By : Bhumi Vanvani
Grade : 8 th
There was a presidential election in 1808, in which James Madison won against Charles Pinckney and he became America’s 4 th president. As Madison was president he faced some problems overseas, because the British and the French were continuing their horrific attacks on some of the American ships. In addition to making it harder for the U.S. to trade. Then the Britains started to take some U.S. sailors for the Britain navy and they also began supporting American Indians in battles against U.S. settlers. For revenge, James Madison made an announcement that america is going to war against Britain in 1812. But when James had made that announcement he did not realize that America was not ready. Some of the reasons were because the congress didn't have enough money and they didn't have a prepared and ready to fight army. Also many states did not like the idea of having war against Britain which was called “Mr. Madison’s War” so they said they would not let their soldiers leave for battle and join this army. Ignoring these flaws, Americans still tried to fight and attack the British. The U.S. met defeat much of the …show more content…
But when the elections were over madison again won and became president. Regardless the victory of Madison he was always getting criticized and blamed by the community because of the growing difficulties of the war. There wasn’t a lot of trade going between the Americans and the Europeans due to that was really hurting all the American merchants again. The Federalists underestimated Madison’s efforts. then later madison Madison was forced and exiled out of Washington, D.C., in August 1814 the British soldiers started to invaded and burn buildings, and some of the buildings were the White House, the Capitol, and the Library of