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In 1810 a group of congress started to call a war against the British. They decided to call themselves war hawks because the hawks were very mean and aggressive birds. They were enraged about impressment and they couldn't stand one more minute of it. Most of them believed that the people in the Brithish colony of Canada were supplying weapons for the American Indians. The United States Government made treaties to keep settlers of land where American Indians lived. Those promises were broken often. Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief, took action. He wanted all the American Indian nations to unite. Tecumseh and his brother, known as the prophet, belived that if they all united they could keep settlers of their land and by 1811 many nations had joined him. The first battle, Battle of Tippecanoe, occured when the governor of Indiana, William Henry Harrison, thought he was being threatend by Tecumseh and his 1,000 followers and they battled at Tippecanoe river. War Hawk: To seek war on a country or reigon. Did you know that actually the name war hawk was to describe the members of the Twelth Congress because they were very eager to go and fight the war against the United Kingdom in the War Of 1812. Click herefor a Brain Pop video on Tecumseh.

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Teacher Tube, May 3rd 2010, [] Florida Houghton Mifflin Social Studies Textbook Brain Pop, May 3rd 2010, [] war1812.JPG external image weal_10_img1850.jpg
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