Jeffersons Foreign Policy

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Jeffersons Foreign Policy

• Emperors

• Pirates and

• the English Ohh My

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Fighting the Barbary Pirates
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Jeffersons Mosquito Navy
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The Louisiana Purchase
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Jefferson felt that farmers were the future of
America
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What foreign policy problems did Jefferson and
other early American Presidents face?
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Napoleon was a great general who wanted to
conquer the world.
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Louvertures successful rebellion encouraged
Napoleon to abandon the Americas.
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Damn sugar, damn coffee, damn colonies!
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The Negotiations

James Monroe
Napoleon
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There was only one problem
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It is the case of a guardian, investing the
money of his ward in purchasing an important
adjacent territory and saying to him of age, I
did this for your good I pretend to no right to
bind you you may disavow me, and I must get out
of the scrape as I can I thought it my duty to
risk myself for you. Jefferson in a private
letter regarding the purchase.
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Jefferson Purchases the Louisiana Territory for
15 Million
"Let the Land rejoice, for you have bought
Louisiana for a Song." --Gen. Horatio Gates to
President Thomas Jefferson, July 18, 1803
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Why Jefferson purchased Louisiana
Economic Needs The United States needed the
Mississippi River and the city of New Orleans
National Defense Napoleon dangerous neighbor
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The Hated Embargo Act

• Cut off trade with the rest of the world
• Hurt shipping and economy
• Encouraged manufacturing
• New Englanders talked of Secession
• Hated by all
• England survived.
• Repealed for the Non-intercourse act

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Nicknames for the Embargo Act
O grab me Mobrage
Dambargo Go bar Em
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