Major Events of Presidency:
- Embargo Act repealed and replaced with Non-intercourse act, prohibiting American trade with Britain and France only
- Tecumseh and "the Prophet" establish a Native American tribal confederacy
- Macon's Bill No. 2 allows American merchants to trade with Britain and France providing they agreed to stop violating American rights at sea
- United States annexes Western Florida
- William Henry Harrison's victory at the Battle of Tippecanoe leaves Indian confederacy in disarray
- United States declares war against Britain on June 18th, 1812
- Louisiana admitted as 16th state
- British create naval blockade around American Coastline, economy suffers
- American forces burn British Canadian Capital of York (British would later retaliate and burn Washington D.C.)
- Perry claims victory at Battle of Put-In-Bay, making possible and invasion of Canada by way of water and securing American Northwest
- Harrison defeats Tecumseh, ending the confederacy's hopes of resisting white expansion
- Francis Lowell builds factories in Waltham, Massachusetts
- Andrew Jackson massacres Creek Indians at Battle of Horseshoe Bend, breaking their resistance
- "Star-Spangled Banner" written by Francis Scott Key
- Hartford Convention meets to discuss possibility of seceding from Union
- Treaty of Ghent signed, ending War of 1812 in which no side truly benefited
- Jackson wins Battle of New Orleans, solidifying his military career
- U.S. signs treaty's with tribes giving America more western land
- Second Bank of the United States chartered
- Rush-Bagot agreement calls of disarmament of Great Lakes
- Veto of internal improvements bill