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Fight the Good Fight of Faith: Protestantism, Partisan Politics and the War of 1812
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SUNY Oneonta Academic Research (SOAR): A Journal of Undergraduate History
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Unangst, Matthew
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2024
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2024
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The causes of the War of 1812 have been debated by historians.
Explanations have ranged from reasons such as the hunger for new land
to securing commerce and protection for American sailors on the seas.
These previous explanations however have left aspects now seen as very
important to the history of the early American republic such as religion
and Anglo-American republican ideology out of the picture. In this
paper various written materials such as poems, newspaper articles and
sermons using the methods of conceptual history are used to show the
importance of these aspects to the War of 1812 and how a powerful
matrix of discourse between competing Christian denominations
contributed to the causes and reactions to the War of 1812 among
Americans. These reactions created an atmosphere of extreme
partisanship between citizens of the United States at the time and
divided them along religious and party lines in regard to the war.
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