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Color & Label the following:
Mississippi River (trace in dark BLUE)
Red River (trace in RED)
New Orleans (put a GREEN dot)
Atlantic Ocean(LIGHT BLUE)
Pacific Ocean(LIGHT BLUE)
Gulf of Mexico (DARK BLUE)
Great Lakes (DARK BLUE)
U.S. Territory (GREEN)
Louisiana Territory (YELLOW)
Spanish Territory (ORANGE)
Oregon Country (PINK)
British Territory (PURPLE)
Label:
Arkansas River Missouri River
Ohio River Ouachita River
Draw and Label: Shade the mountains BROWN
Rocky Mountains Appalachian Mountains
- How did Jefferson’s ideas about government and domestic policy help define America during the early 1800s?
Jefferson’s Political Philosophy
America should remain an agrarian (farming) society. As simple farmers we will share common experience, values and beliefs.
Abundant land will prevent the urbanization of America. We do not need big cities like Europe has.
Reduce the number of federal employees.
Reduce the size of the military.
2. Foreign Policy: Challenges and Responses
2. Foreign Policy: Challenges and Responses
Challenge: Napoleonic Wars
Fighting continues between France and Britain
Both sides created blockade, wanting to end trade between the U.S. and their enemy
France and Britain continued seizing American ships
Britain impressed American sailors into the British navy
America’s Response: Embargo Act (1807)
Ended all exports from the United States to foreign nations
Passed to pressure Britain and France to recognize American neutrality
Problem: It hurt the U.S. economy more than France and Britain
Exports dropped by 80% by 1808
1807: Exports worth $108 million
1808: Exports worth $22 million
Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves of 1807
Law that stated no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States
3. What were the causes and effects of the Louisiana Purchase on the United States?
3. What were the causes and effects of the Louisiana Purchase on the United States?
Reasons U.S. wanted to buy New Orleans:
As American settlers moved West, control of the Mississippi River became more important to the United States.
Settlers depended on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers to move products east.
Jefferson worried about foreign control of New Orleans and Louisiana.
Americans depended on the river, which could be disrupted if a foreign power shut down access to New Orleans, also known as the right of deposit
Jefferson sent ambassadors Robert Livingston and James Monroe to France to try to buy New Orleans.
Reasons France sold Louisiana
The French regained control of Louisiana from Spain in the Treaty of San Ildefonso
The French offered to sell ALL of Louisiana.
Needed money to fund his war with Britain (Napoleonic Wars)
After the Haitian slave revolt, he no longer needed Louisiana (provided food for sugar plantations in Haiti)
St. Domingue: French colony in present-day Haiti
Revolt led by Toussaint L’Overture
Napoleon sent over 40,000 soldiers to fight rebels
French soldiers decimated by yellow fever, forced troops to withdraw
Too difficult to maintain the North American colony
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was approved by the Senate on October 20, 1803, and almost doubled the size of the United States
Price was $15 million
Problems for Jefferson:
Was the purchase constitutional?
Federalists argue NO; Democratic-Republicans argue YESNothing in the Constitution about land acquisitions
Jefferson himself said he didn’t have the authority, but knew it was important - so he went through with it!
Lasting impact on Federal Power
Purchase seen as beginning of expansion of federal power
Constitution interpreted more loosely by future governments
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