This question is referring to the years before the War of 1812. The congressmen who wanted war with Britain were known as "war hawks." Most were relatively young, as opposed to their older colleagues who remembered the Revolutionary War, and most were from the South and especially the West. Many Western congressmen were eager to invade British Canada to seize British lands, and, at the very least, to destroy perceived British influence among Indian peoples around the Great Lakes. These men were especially outraged by British offenses to American honor, especially the practice of impressment, which indicated that the British Navy had no respect for the United States. The most famous of these so-called "war hawks," who mainly identified with the Republican Party, were Henry Clay of Kentucky and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina.
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