War of 1812

Negative affects of the war for Native Americans

The Native Americans helped the British during the war of 1812 and were the reason the Americans did not take over Canada. While the British were fighting Napoleon, they were unable to send enough troops to America, and were forced to supply the natives with weapons instead. By using the natives, Britain  was able to protect its land but this ultimately weakened the natives for future resistance and caused the Americans at the time to despised the natives. This political cartoon depicts the animosity Americans had for the natives by portraying them as savages brutally killing Americans.

After the war, the United States and Britain lost nothing when it came to land but the Natives lost huge amounts of land in addition to losing the chance of stopping future American western expansion. Before 1815 natives were called Americans but after 1815 European Americans were called Americans. The British and Americans can argue which of the two countries lost but the natives truly lost the war of 1812. 

Frontier soldiers primarily fought Natives. There was already tension between frontier farmers and natives but after the war started, there was hatred. Andrew Jackson fought the Creeks at the battle of horseshoe bend and forced them to give up all twenty three million acres of their land. He would later fight the Seminoles. Because most of the United States consisted of farmers, the majority of people supported Jackson's victories in taking land from the natives. However, most people did not care about the five hundred Cherokee soldiers who helped Andrew Jackson win the battle of horseshoe bend, which allowed the United States to take all of the Creek tribe's land.