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    Jefferson sought to pursue a policy of neutrality in foreign affairs and focus on domestic issues, but tensions with Britain and France made this impossible. Britain imposed a partial blockade and interfered with American shipping, impressing over 6,000 American sailors into British naval service between 1803 and 1812. In response, Jefferson enacted the Embargo Act of 1807 to halt foreign trade, but this hurt the American economy instead of Britain and France. Growing tensions and British arms support of Native American resistance led Congress to declare war on Britain in 1812 at the urging of War Hawks frustrated by British violations.

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    Jefferson sought to pursue a policy of neutrality in foreign affairs and focus on domestic issues, but tensions with Britain and France made this impossible. Britain imposed a partial blockade and interfered with American shipping, impressing over 6,000 American sailors into British naval service between 1803 and 1812. In response, Jefferson enacted the Embargo Act of 1807 to halt foreign trade, but this hurt the American economy instead of Britain and France. Growing tensions and British arms support of Native American resistance led Congress to declare war on Britain in 1812 at the urging of War Hawks frustrated by British violations.

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    Jefferson sought to pursue a policy of neutrality in foreign affairs and focus on domestic issues, but tensions with Britain and France made this impossible. Britain imposed a partial blockade and interfered with American shipping, impressing over 6,000 American sailors into British naval service between 1803 and 1812. In response, Jefferson enacted the Embargo Act of 1807 to halt foreign trade, but this hurt the American economy instead of Britain and France. Growing tensions and British arms support of Native American resistance led Congress to declare war on Britain in 1812 at the urging of War Hawks frustrated by British violations.

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    Ch.10, Sec.

    3a Problems with
    Foreign Powers
    Jeffersons Foreign Policy
    - Jefferson felt all along that the government should focus on
    domestic affairs and stay out of foreign affairs
    - his idea of neutrality was doomed from the beginning
    because of the many merchants trading all over the world and
    westward expansion from the Louisiana Purchase
    - expansion would bring Americans into closer contact with
    people from other nations who had already established
    settlements in the West

    Ch.10, Sec.3a Problems with


    Foreign Powers
    - lastly, Jefferson had little control over the actions of England
    and France
    Problems with France and England
    - the U.S. was fortunate to stay out of European wars after the
    French Revolution
    - however, by 1805, England started clamping down on
    American ships that were providing supplies to their enemies
    - England set up a partial blockade, which angered France and
    put our merchants into a difficult situation

    Ch.10, Sec.3a Problems with


    Foreign Powers
    - if our merchants followed the British stockade, the French
    would seize our ships and vice-versa
    - England also interfered with the U.S.
    trade by impressment of American
    sailors to work on British ships
    - from 1803 to 1812, England had
    impressed about 6,000 U.S. sailors
    - many politicians & citizens were
    angry with Jefferson for not declaring
    war on England!

    Ch.10, Sec.3a Problems with


    Foreign Powers
    Trade as a Weapon
    - instead of declaring war, Jefferson asked Congress to pass
    legislation that would stop all foreign trade
    - in 1807, Congress passed the Embargo Act of 1807, which
    no longer allowed U.S. merchants to sail to foreign ports &
    closed American ports to British ships
    - the act was a disaster that ended up hurting our economy
    - the embargo became a major issue in the election of 1808,
    which was won by James Madison

    Ch.10, Sec.3a Problems with


    Foreign Powers

    Ch.10, Sec.3a Problems with


    Foreign Powers
    - by the time Madison took office, Congress had repealed the
    embargo and replaced with a law that allowed merchants to
    trade with any country except England & France
    - this law proved no more effective than the embargo!
    Tecumseh and Native American Unity
    - Americans were furious with the British for their interference
    with shipping, impressment, and stirring up Native American
    resistance to frontier settlements in the Northwest Territory &
    Louisiana Territory

    Ch.10, Sec.3a Problems with


    Foreign Powers
    - since the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, Native Americans
    had lost a lot of land in Ohio & Indiana
    - Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief, vowed to stop the loss of Native
    American land though the unification of many tribes
    - in 1809, William Henry
    Harrison, governor of the
    Indiana Territory, signed the
    Treaty of Fort Wayne with
    chiefs of the Miami,
    Delaware, and Potawatomi
    tribes

    Tecumseh

    William Henry
    Harrison

    Ch.10, Sec.3a Problems with


    Foreign Powers
    - the treaty sold over 3 million acres of land, but Tecumseh
    refused to recognize the treaty
    - in November of 1811, the Shawnee tribe was defeated by
    Harrisons forces at the Battle of Tippecanoe, severely
    crippling his efforts to unite more tribes against the U.S.

    Ch.10, Sec.3a Problems with


    Foreign Powers
    War Hawks
    - after the Battle of Tippecanoe, Tecumseh allied his warriors
    with the British in Canada
    - many Americans began demanding war against England and
    they were named War Hawks
    - War Hawks wanted the British out of Canada and their aid to
    the Native Americans stopped; some Americans wanted war
    because of the British violations at sea
    - urged on by future president, Andrew Jackson, and War
    Hawks, Congress declared war on England June 18, 1812!!!

    Ch.10, Sec.3a Problems with


    Foreign Powers

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