Unit 7 Notes Part II

Question 1

Barbary States

Answer 1

countries of N Africa (Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Morocco)

Question 2

Barbary War causes

Answer 2

pirates preyed on commercial vessels
US paid tribute to pirates
when pirates tried to increase payments, Jefferson ended the payments
Jefferson then sent a naval squadron to punish them

Question 3

Barbary war ending

Answer 3

US’s unimpressive military set up a naval blockade that ended hostility
treaty in 1805 ends the war

Question 4

why was new orleans important

Answer 4

at the mouth of mississippi river

jefferson felt he could persuade rulers of Spain to sell their colonies

Question 5

____ secretly transferred the louisiana territory to ____

Answer 5

spain transferred it to france (napoleon)

Question 6

what distracts napoleon from his new french empire in america

Answer 6

uprising in Haiti led by Touissant L’Overture (ruler of Haiti)
napoleon sent a large army to St. Dominigue, Haiti, a sugar producing island
30,000 french troops died, and napoleon loses interest in american empire

Question 7

who was sent to try to buy new orleans

Answer 7

Monroe was sent to join Livingston in Paris in January 1803 with instructions to purchase New Orleans

Question 8

instead of just new orleans, what does US walk away with

Answer 8

all of the louisiana territory for $15 million (3 cents per acre)

Question 9

what was weird ab the louisiana purchase

Answer 9

jefferson went against his belief in a strict construction of the constitution (nothing said he could purchase land)

Question 10

when did la purchase become official

Answer 10

october 1803 the treaty was ratified - doubled the size of the us after jefferson asked congress for money

Question 11

when and how much money did lewis and clark use

Answer 11

they made secret plans to explore the far west even before the la purchase - requested $2,500 from Congress

Question 12

purpose of lewis and clark expedition

Answer 12

look for water route to pacific

study indian tribes, rocks, plans, animals of the region

Question 13

Jefferson’s secretary, leader of the expedition

Answer 13

meriwether lewis

Question 14

cartographer, less important to expedition

Answer 14

william clark

Question 15

who went w lewis and clark

Answer 15

about 40 men

they hired Toussant Charbonneau and his wife Sacajawea

Question 16

start and end points of expedition

Answer 16

start: St. Louis in May 1804
end: Pacific Ocean on December 3, 1805
(then they had to go back)

Question 17

what did lewis and clark do on their expedition when they got there

Answer 17

confirmed claim of the US to the whole Oregon region

began to sketch in details the vast area

Question 18

captain zebulon pike (1805-07)

Answer 18

explored upper Mississippi River to the Rockies
Pike’s Peak
picked up by Spanish soldiers
gave valuable info on number and types of troops Spain had in the area

Question 19

what did aaron burr do after losing to jefferson in 1800

Answer 19

ran for governor of ny
negotiated w die hard, extreme (High) Federalists
they were plotting secession of new england and ny from the union

Question 20

relationship btw hamilton and burr

Answer 20

hamilton doesn’t trust burr
put patriotism above party loyalty
hamilton helped keep burr out of office
burr blames hamilton for his defeat and challenges him to a duel - July 11, 1804 hamilton is killed by burr

Question 21

why was jefferson’s first term successful

Answer 21

cut debt, kinda kept the peace, trade increased, more people moved west, ohio joins the union

Question 22

when england and france went back to war, what changed this time

Answer 22

us used to benefit and profit from them, but instead its commerce was threatened w ruin

Question 23

1806 Orders in Council

Answer 23

trade regulations by Britain that forbade neutral commerce with continental Europe… Britain threatened to sieze any ship that disobeyed

Question 24

Imperial Decrees

Answer 24

trade regulations by France that closed all continental ports to British trade in Berlin and Milan

Question 25

The Chesapeake Affair

Answer 25

Leopard (British ship) commanded the Chesapeake (American ship) to search for British deserters
captain of the Chesapeake refused
the Leopard opened fire killing 3, wounding 18

Question 26

deserters

Answer 26

British sailors turning to the American side

Question 27

why was the us embarrassed

Answer 27

their sailors were being impressed by the british

Question 28

jefferson realized the us was ____

Answer 28

unprepared for war

Question 29

how did jefferson respond to the chesapeake affair

Answer 29

ordered british warships to stay out of our waters (embargo)
sent Monroe (ambassador to England) to demand an apology and an end to impressment

Question 30

did britain apologize

Answer 30

yes, since they didn’t want war, but they did not stop impressment

Question 31

peaceable coercion

Answer 31

jefferson decides to keep ships at home (hard to enforce)

in theory, this would deprive european powers of american goods, especially food

Question 32

Embargo Act 1807

Answer 32

jefferson failed to scare GB and France into changing their policy towards the US (instead, they went to S. America to trade)
began to destroy american commerce (since they couldn’t trade with anyone)
the US became like a police state to make it work and enforce it
northerners hated it and shipowners disobeyed it

Question 33

when was the embargo repealed

Answer 33

3 days before the end of jefferson’s second term

Question 34

Nonintercourse Act

Answer 34

replaced the Embargo Act

authorized the resumption of trade between US and all nations except GB and France

Question 35

whichever country ( __ or ____) apologized first would be able to _______

Answer 35

congress authorized the president to reopen trade with GB or France if either of them would stop violating the US’s neutral rights (if GB or France apologized and stopped being mean, they could trade w us again)