Wednesday

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Wednesday
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• Three items, seemingly separate, but tied
  together.
• Cotton going up
• Tobacco going down
• People going west

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• Long Staple and Short Staple Cotton
• Long Staple is easy to harvest, hard to grow.
• Short Staple is easy to grow, hard to harvest.
• Along came Eli Whitney,
• And his cotton picking gin!

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• Slave imports were to end in 1808
• Rush to stockpile
• Natural population increase
• Decrease in Tobacco
• The South had a surplus of slaves.

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• During the revolution, immigration slowed down.
• Because of the French Revolution, Napoleon, and
  the Europe Wars, immigration speeded up.
• After 1783, 7000 people a year

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• Population pressures on existing land.
• New Englanders to Vermont, Maine, Western
  Pennsylvania, down the Ohio
• Chesapeake to Kentucky and Tennessee
• Southerners to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
  and Georgia.

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• and the results of the above 3 items.

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• ¼ of Americans lived west of the mountains.
• 250,000 slaves were sold or moved into Alabama
  and Mississippi to harvest cotton.
• The area became known as the Black Belt, as it
  harvested the White Gold
• Immigrants to Ky and Tn adhered to the
  Euro-American adageif I find it, it is mine

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• None of the above took into consideration that
  there were already people living in these areas.
  
• Well, Indians were not people, so there!

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• Indian Intercourse Act of 1790
• Loosely interpreted
• Indians had 3 choices

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• Assimilate
• Move
• Die.

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• Cherokees the most successful at
  assimilationalbeit temporary.
• Cherokees became land owners, farmers, and even
  slave owning cotton planters.
• They too began to get penned in.

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• The Shawnee, Delaware, and Miami tribes resisted
  until the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794.
• Things were reasonably quiet until 1805
• Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa

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• Treaty of Fort Wayne 1809
• Tippecanoe in 1811
• Florida in 1812
• Jackson and Horsebend in 1814

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• Lewis and Clark
• Zebulon Pike

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• Meanwhile..
• France and England were fighting
• yawn
• again

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• United States traded with both sides.
• Exports up 40
• France control the continent
• England control the seas

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• Essex Act..1805
• Non-Importation Act..1806
• Embargo Act..1807
• British impressments
• Non-intercourse Act..1808
• Macons Bill No. 2..1810

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• Country is divided
• War-Hawks..Clay and Calhoun
• Federalist..feared loss of commerce.
• Vote on party lines, war declared in 1812

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• Tecumseh killed in 1813
• Invasion of Canada caused withdrawal of New
  England troops.
• British effectively blockaded the coast, and
  burned Washington DC

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• The British defeated France, and really wanted
  to stop fighting. It was expensive.
• Treat of Ghent in 1814, basically called in a
  draw but that would be a hard sell.

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• Before word of the peace settlement reached
  America.. We had a little fire fight in New
  Orleans.
• After that, the talk was of
• The rising glory of the American Republic.

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• Flush with victory, Jackson invaded Florida,
  under the guise of squashing Indian uprisings.
• Spain was busy with Mexico.

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• The United States had undisputed possession of
  all territory from the Atlantic to the Rockies,
  south of the 49th parallel.