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Objective 1.03
Review
In 1794, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John
Jay was dispatched to England to seek solutions to
the following problems:
•British forts in United States territory
•British attacks on United States merchant
ships
•British providing Native Americans in the
Ohio River valley with guns
Jay’s Treaty
•French attacks on United States merchant ships
•President John Adams sent 3 U.S. ambassadors to Paris to
negotiate a resolution to the issue
•Prime Minster Talleyrand requests a bribe to initiate
negotiation
the
•Information about the bribe request is leaks to the
American republic and the U.S. starts to prepare for
war with France
•“Millions for defense, not one dime for tribute”
XYZ Affair
•United States angry about the XYZ affairs
•Congress votes money for a navy and the
prepares for war with France
U.S.
•France already fighting England, wants to
negotiate her way out of this problem
•This treaty releases the U.S. from her
obligations with France (Treaty of Alliance)
Convention of 1800
•This act issued by Jefferson forbade American
trading ships
from leaving the U.S.
•It was meant to force Britain and France to change their policies
towards neutral vessels by depriving them of American trade.
•It was difficult to enforce because it was opposed by
merchants and everyone else whose livelihood
depended upon international trade.
•It also hurt the national economy, especially the
New England
states
Embargo Act 1807
•France and Britain were at war
•France want U.S. assistance per the Treaty of
Alliance made during the American
Revolutionary War
•President Washington felt that the United
States need time to grow and that we
should not get involved in a
European War
President Washington’s
Proclamation Neutrality
•warned against the dangers of
political parties, foreign alliances and
sectional conflicts
President
Washington’s
Farewell Address
•Young westerners who argued for war of 1812
•Felt that the war was just retaliation for
insults
against the United States by the
British (
Impressment, attacks on U.S. merchant ships etc..)
•Believe the war would result in territorial gain for the
country (esp. Canada)
•Led by Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun
War Hawks
Causes of the _______________________
•Impressment of United States sailors
•British forts in United States territory
•Possible territorial gains (esp.. Canada)
•British giving Native Americans in the
Ohio
River valley guns (inciting Indian
attacks against
U.S. frontier settlers)
War of 1812
•Leader of the Red Stick Confederacy
•Launched Indian attacks against U.S. settlers
in the Ohio River valley
•His Indian army was defeated by
Governor William Henry Harrison
he battle of Tippecanoe
Tecumseh
at
•At this battle the British were
defeated by U.S. forces
soundly
•This battle made Andrew Jackson
a
national hero and helps propel him into
national politics
•Was fought after the war of 1812 actually
ended
Battle of New Orleans
•This treaty made it illegal for
British men to kill Americans and
Americans to kill British
men
•Was the treaty that ended
war of 1812
Treaty of Ghent
the
•Right of Deposit
•Opened up the interior of the U.S. to
worlds market (Ohio River Valley)
•The port of New Orleans
•Negotiated by Charles
Pinckney
Pinckney’s Treaty