Do now

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Do now

• QUIETLY!!! WITHOUT SPEAKING
• Look at the images within the head outline at the
  front of the board. Analyze the images and see if
  you can figure out whose head the outline is
  supposed to be?

Bonus What was the last thing Captain jack
Sparrow said in the movie Pirates of the
Caribbean The Black Pearl?
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A time of Conflict

• Americans on Foreign Seas

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Pirates

• Controlled many bodies of water around the globe
• Pirates off Africa were forcing countries to pay
  tribute.

4
War with Tripoli

• U.S. tired of paying tribute
• Stephen Decatur and the Philadelphia
• War ends in 1805 but tribute continues

5

• France and Britain are at war
• Policy of Neutrality- Washington said no
  alliances. So, we trade with both countries and
  remain neutral
• Neutral rights violated- both France and Britain
  stopped U.S. ships from shipping goods to the
  other nation.

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Freedom of the Seas

• Impressment- American sailors or British runaways
  forced to work in Royal Navy.

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Attack on the Chesapeake

• U.S. vessel fired upon by British
• Americans outraged

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Trade Affected

• Embargo Act 1807- cut off trade with foreign
  countries
• - no source of money or goods
• Non Intercourse Act 1809- prohibited trade with
  Britain and France
• - made at the end of Jeffersons term
• - unenforceable and unpopular
• TRADE

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Election of 1808

• After two terms Jefferson steps down
• - whos precedent was this?
• James Madison (DR) vs.. Charles Pinckney
  (Federalists)
• Madison wins 122 electoral votes to 47

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Frontier Conflicts

• Settlers moving west feud with Indians
• Tecumseh- Indian leader that created confederacy
  of tribes to fight whites
• Tenskatawa- called the prophet
• - half brother of Tecumseh
• - Prophetstown

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• William Henry Harrison- Governor of Indiana sends
  troops to Prophetstown
• Battle of Tippecanoe- no crushing victory but
  Prophetstown is burnt to the ground, Indian
  confederation shaken
• Tecumseh curse

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War Hawks

• Henry Clay and John Calhoun- from Kentucky and
  South Carolina and others from the west and south
  want war with Britain for supplying the Indians
• Federalists are against war. Why?
• Madison declares war on Britain in spring of
  1812

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Closing Activity

• Create a poster that would encourage Indians to
  join Tecumsehs confederation to fight the white
  settlers.
• Have the poster depict why they would fight the
  white settlers or why they should travel to
  Prophetstown to join the confederation.
• Be creative!!!