You are watching American History tv all weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. 10 00, the00 and historian and curator use artifacts and photographs to trace the history of women in the house beginning with the election in 1917 and ending with the story of Margaret Smith today at 6 00 and 10 00 eastern on cspan3. Each week, American History tv visits museums and historic basis. 200 years ago on september 11th, 1814, british and American Naval forces clash for two half hours in Cumberland Bay near plattsburgh, new york. The battle was the culmination of six days of conflict. Up next, we travel to plattsburgh where retired author david fitzenz, author of the final invasion plattsburgh, the war of 1812s most decisive battle, takes us on a tour of key locations to tell the story. I have something to show you that is very rare. To fight the british when across the border. Only several hundr
Considerations. He was well aware of balancing the different branches of the government and he never lost site of his state as all politicians of his generation took the same ground. He had a much more flexible conception of the constitution. Especially when the nation faced difficult conditions that demanded solutions. He understood are that the federal system was fragmented. And preserving the union required negotiation. The war of 1812 was as we said an example of the competing interests in different parts of the union. And in many ways it didnt succeed. Westerners made off better than the other regions they didnt get additional land from canada but as john stag mentioned they did get a lot of land from native americans. The english did not end impressment of sailors because of any pressure the United States had put on them they did it when they chose to do so. The war are had been waged by a union of regional republics with a loose allegiance to a different government, distant gove