September 19, 1825

September 19, 1825

Dear Diary,

Mama took me to the news stand yesterday and guess what?!...mama’s going to take me again tomorrow. But…tomorrow I’m not going to the news stand…I’m going…to….the…news…STORE!!! Yeah, that’s right. Tomorrows the grand opening of the news store. I’ve been waiting for this day ever since I heard of the news stand. Plus, mama said that since I’ve been so helpful around the house and out in the fields, she’s going to let me pick out anything in the store that I would like to have. ANYTHING!!! I just can’t wait till tomorrow. But until then…I’ll just tell you the stories I got yesterday.

So I got this really cool story, but it has some little stories in it. But I will try to make it short Diary.

So my story is called Primary Causes of the War of 1812; here’s my story.

Even though the American Revolution ended in 1783, the issues between Britain and the United States had with each other, never ended.

Now I will tell you all the small stories. They’re called the Impressment, Blockade, and the First Nations Alliances. First I will tell you about the Impressment. (And I will basically sum up the stories because they are quite long, and I have to go to bed soon).  

Have I told you about Napoleon before? Well if I haven’t, he’s a really successful Military leader in France, and his plan was to take over all of Europe.

So anyways…

The British didn’t want Napoleon to cross into England and take over that as well, so the British tried to get a strong army to guard their shores. But since the American Merchant Navy was giving better pay, most of the British’s army went to serve the Merchant Navy instead. (all the people that left the British army were called deserters). Since the British didn’t have a lot of people, they started stopping American ships at sea trying to find their deserters. Sometimes it impressed the American’s and most of the time it made the United States extremely mad.

The other story is about Blockade but it’s not that important so I will just skip it; plus it isn’t very interesting, so it won’t make a difference anyways.

My next story is about the First Nations Alliances.

When the American Revolution ended, the First Nations People kept a large territory for themselves. (They didn’t want the Americans to expand and take their land, so they made their own territory just for them). The Americans were quite mad at the British because they thought that the British were the ones that encouraged the First Nations People to be violent towards them. And then the paper said something about this guy named Tecumseh, but I don’t really know what he did. (Plus, I can’t even remember the story).

Well, that’s all for now Diary, but I will have plenty to tell you tomorrow when they open the news store.

Love,

Samantha Jones