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importance of port of new orleans to american farmers |
farmers stored goods in warehouses in New Orleans |
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Pinckney treaty |
spain let americans ship goods down the Mississippi and store them in new orleans |
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napolean bonaparte |
*ruler of france *gave louisiana back to france *worried president jefferson *jefferson feared napolean might attempt to build empire in north america |
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revolt in haiti |
Haiti was the richest Franch colony in the caribbean, enslaved africans worked on suger plantations which made French planters weathy, Toussaint L'Ouverture led a revolt to fight for liberty and nearly forced French out of Haiti |
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Louisiana purchase |
Jefferson tried to buy New Orleans from Napoleon so that American farmers would always be able to ship their goods thought the port of New Orleans, robert livingston and james monre negotiate with the french, they met with tallyrand,they where instructed to offer less then $10 million,they payed $15 million for all of lousisiana, us took control of lands west of the mississippi |
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Exploration of new lands |
meriwether lewis and william clark went on the exploration, they had to get the climate, wildlife, soil, resoures & native american nations, they left from missouri river in st.louis and ended in pacific ocean |
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sacajewea |
a shoshone women who offered to guide the explores across the moutains and serve as a translator |
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continental divide |
moutain ridge that seperates river systems |
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barbary states |
north african nations |
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problem with tripoli |
early 1800s the ruler of tripoli one of the barbary states demanded a larger bribe jefferson refused to pay tripoli declared war on the us |
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attacking of american ships why? |
1803- britain & france went to war again, gave a boost to american trade, merchants tradeing with both sides, neither side wanted the other to sell supplies too its enemy, ignored American claims of neutrality, tried to cut off American trade with the other, Napoleon seized American ships bound for England, British stopped American ships on their way to France, between 1805 & 1807 hundreds of American ships were captured |
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impressments |
forcing people to serve for your country |
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embargo act |
passed in 1807, forbade Americans to import or export goods to any nation |
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nonintercourse act |
passed in 1809, allowed americans to trade with all nations except britian and france |
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james madison |
republican, 1808 elected president |
