Related reading: Chapter 6, Section #2, Explore, for your Discovery Techbook.
USS Constitution Museum Discover and learn about the USS Constitution.
American Battlefield Trust: War of 1812 Sometimes referred to as the “Second War of Independence,” the War of 1812 was the first large scale test of the American republic on the world stage. With the British Navy impressing American sailors, and the British government aiding Native American tribes in their attacks on American citizens on the frontier, Congress, for the first time in our nation’s history, declared war on a foreign nation: Great Britain.