War of 1812

As I was reading my section my first thought was "How did this war even start?" I could not find an exact answer in my section. So I read the previous section to get more information. I found several reasons why the War of 1812 started. The reasons all escalated and in the end President Madison (at the time) declared war. Some reasons were 1. The US was trading with France, the British did not like that because they didn't have no one to sale goods. So product price lowered. 2 France and Britain were seizing American ships they believed US was trading with both countries. Then the whole Impressement happen and pirating occurred. There were too many events in the previous section. That section broke down the reasons for this War. The countries involved were France, Britain and the US. The Americans had "Sunday soldiers" in other words unprofessional soldiers.( just like militias) The British is still in war with France so they decided to make alliance with the natives to scare the US. One of Britain's biggest successes was when they marched into Washington and burned the presidential mansion. The British was doing good at the time and they also defeated Napoleon. The US also had their victory against Britain. The US took control over Detroit, the British ended up pulling out. The treaty of Ghent was then created, from what I understood the US neither gained/loss territory and there was no decision on impressment. There was a major victory 2 weeks after the treaty; a British force landed in New Orleans and Jackson stood up against the British (very brave to do) and killed 2,000 English men and only lost 13 men. Jackson defeated the British. The only unclear or difficult to understand was the last section of the War of 1812, The Hartford Convention. I didn’t understand the context. I did some research and I read that it had to deal with New England Federalist. They were dissatisfied with the war, they thought that it was still possible that the British could win or at least drag the war a little longer. I learned that after 3 weeks of discussing the Hartford Convention decided to ask the federal government to supply financial aid to help New England's trade economy and new Constitutional amendment.