12th Amendment

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12th Amendment

• The person who came in 2nd in the Presidential
  Race will no longer be Vice President
• 2 separate ballots for Pres. and VP

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Foreign Affairs

• England is still enemy 1
• France was right behind them
• Keep policy of no entanglements

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Foreign Trade

• Trade agricultural goods for Europes
  manufactured goods
• Undo manufacturing might the Federalists set up
• Wanted to avoid concentration of wealth and class
  dependency

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• Avoid war at all cost
• Dangerous to liberty
• Deployment of naval vessels against the Barbary
  States

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Barbary States

• Algiers, Morocco, Tripoli and Tunis
• Attacked ships from the US and other nations
• At first America paid tributes for each ship that
  was lost.
• Jefferson then said no more.

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1803

• European Wars began again
• English and French ships were taking American
  goods
• Americansangry
• Still impressment
• Still in the Great Lakes region

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Non-Importation of 1806

• Banned British goods that could be produced
  domestically or purchased some place else

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Leopard vs. Chesapeake

• British warship Leopard stopped the US frigate
  Chesapeake
• Leopard demanded 4 crew members be turned over as
  deserters.
• Am. Commander refused
• Leopard opened fired and killed 3

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Embargo Act 1807

• Passed as a result of the Chesapeake incident
• Forbade all American ships to sail for foreign
  ports
• Did not affect England
• US exports dropped 80 in a year
• New England hardest hit
• Repealed in 1809