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This paper examines both the causes and consequences of the War of 1812. According to its author, Britain’s forcible impressment of sailors largely spurred the conflict, while US trade embargos and deteriorating relations with Native Americans added to the two countries’ mutual estrangement at the time. Although the war ultimately restored the international status quo, the territorial losses incurred by native tribes would subsequently inspire the land-grabbing policies of President Andrew Jackson’s administration.