War Hawks

(noun)

A term used in politics for those demanding war.

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Examples of War Hawks in the following topics:

  • Madison and the Pressure for War

    • In the early nineteenth century, President James Madison faced pressure from Democratic-Republican "war hawks" to go to war with Britain.
    • The war hawks were primarily from southern and western states of the United States.
    • The war hawks advocated going to war with Britain for reasons related to the interference of the British Royal Navy in American shipping, which was hurting the American economy and, the war hawks believed, injuring American prestige.
    • A portrait of Henry Clay, the leader of the war hawks' western faction, painted after the War of 1812.
    • Discuss the reasons for war with Great Britain proposed by the "war hawks"

  • Origins of the War of 1812

    • The War of 1812 arose from unfinished business of the Revolutionary War and pressures stemming from Britain's war with France.
    • The origins of the War of 1812, often called the "Second War of American Independence," are found in the unresolved issues between the United States and Great Britain.
    • The failure of Jefferson's embargo led to increasing pressure from Americans to go to war with England.
    • House of Representatives, a group of young Democratic-Republicans known as the "war hawks" came to the forefront in 1811.
    • Opposition to the war came from Federalists, especially those in the Northeast, who knew war would disrupt the maritime trade on which they depended.

  • Clinton and Foreign Policy

    • With the end of the Cold War, President Clinton was faced with international crises in the Middle East, the Balkans, Africa, and Haiti.
    • For decades, the contours of the Cold War had largely determined U.S. action abroad.
    • Strategists saw each coup, revolution, and civil war as part of the larger struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union.
    • The International Criminal Tribunal of Yugoslavia estimated that between 12-50,000 women were raped during the war.
    • A Black Hawk helicopter was shot down, and U.S.

  • Popular Culture

    • Newsboys were employed to hawk the papers on street corners.
    • Competition between department stores created the end-of-season sale and price wars.
    • Identify the various forms of popular culture that emerged in the period following the Civil War

  • Newspapers

    • The telegraph, put to successful use during the Mexican-American War, led to numerous far-reaching results in journalism.
    • Day also introduced a new way of selling papers, known as the London Plan, in which newsboys hawked their newspapers on the streets.

  • Urban Recreation

    • Day also introduced a new way of selling papers, known as the London Plan, in which newsboys hawked their newspapers on the streets.

  • Range Wars

    • Range wars occurred throughout the American West throughout the late nineteenth century.
    • Famous range wars included the Lincoln County War, the Pleasant Valley War, the Mason County War, and the Johnson County Range War.
    • The Pleasant Valley War was commonly thought to be an Arizona sheep war between two feuding families, the cattle-herding Grahams and the sheep-herding Tewksburys.
    • The Johnson County War, also known as the War on Powder River and the Wyoming Range War, was a range war that took place in Johnson, Natrona and Converse County, Wyoming in April 1892.
    • Assess the significance of range wars in late nineteenth century America

  • European Wars in the Colonies

    • The war was largely subsumed by the War of the Austrian Succession in 1742.
    • Britain and France fought four wars that became known as the French and Indian Wars—followed in 1778 with another war when France joined the Americans in the American Revolution.
    • Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second war for control of the continent and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.
    • King George's War, 1744–1748, was the North American phase of the concurrent War of the Austrian Succession.
    • The final imperial war, the French and Indian War (1754–1763), known as the Seven Years’ War in Europe, proved to be the decisive contest between Britain and France in America.

  • The Cold War's Costs and Consequences

    • The costs of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, as well as its numerous proxy wars, were extensive.
    • The legacy of the Cold War continues to influence world affairs today.
    • Many of the proxy wars and subsidies for local conflicts ended along with the Cold War, and the incidence of interstate, ethnic, and revolutionary wars, as well as refugee and displaced persons crises, has declined somewhat in the post-Cold War years.
    • Many specific nuclear legacies can be identified from the Cold War.
    • The legacy of the Cold War continues to influence world affairs.

  • The Breakdown of Sectional Balance

    • With the conflict over the Texan border escalating, Polk sent Zachary Taylor and American troops into Texas to defend the Rio Grande boundary, provoking the outbreak of war.The American public largely supported the war and was eager for news of conquest and war stories disseminated from newspapers and magazines.The war also held romantic appeal for Americans who believed that it was the destiny of the United States to possess the North American continent and to expand "progressive democracy" to new territories acquired from backward nations.
    • Whigs who had opposed the war from the start.
    • The war also inflamed the slavery issue and sectional splits in the United States.The new territories in the west (particularly California) meant that the westward expansion of slavery became an increasingly central and heated theme in national debates preceding the American Civil War.Furthermore, in extending the nation farther toward the Pacific Ocean, the Mexican–American War contributed to the massive migrations of Americans to the West, which culminated in transcontinental railroads and the Indian wars later in the same century.
    • Map of the Mexican-American War, with routes of both Taylor and Scott's campaigns.
    • Examine the role that the Mexican American War played in increasing sectional tension