Goal 1.03: Assess commercial and diplomatic relationships with Britain, France, and other nations.

I.George Washington’s Foreign Policy

  1. The French Revolution: Americans sympathized at first, but then Revolution turned too violent
  2. French Revolutionaries went to war with Britain
  3. US had an obligation to help France due to signing the ______
  4. US depended on trade with both Britain and France
  5. George Washington issued the ______, electing to ignore the Treaty of 1778 and not take sides in the war between Britain and France
  6. British began seizing any ships trying to enter French ports
  7. Hundreds of US ships and cargoes seized
  8. Washington sent John Jay to negotiate with British
  9. US and Britain signed ______in 1795
  10. Britain had right to seize ships
  11. Britain agreed to a third-party arbitrator to settle damages to US merchants
  12. US received “______” status for trade with Britain
  13. US allowed to trade freely with British colonies in Caribbean

II.John Adams’ Foreign Policy

  1. France responded to Jay’s Treaty by beginning to seize US ships
  2. ______
  3. US diplomats in France were asked for bribes and promises of a large loan by French officials
  4. US diplomats refused to offer bribes or a loan and left France
  5. Many Americans began to call for war with France
  6. ______
  7. June 1798: Congress suspended all trade with France and ordered US navy to capture French ships
  8. ______
  9. US agreed to give up all claims for damages against France for seized ships
  10. France agreed to release US from terms of Treaty of 1778
  11. US and France at peace

III.Thomas Jefferson’s Foreign Policy

  1. US purchased ______from France
  2. Napoleon was fighting expensive wars in Europe and needed cash
  3. Napoleon was fighting a slave revolt in Haiti and needed French troops who had been protecting New Orleans
  4. Napoleon wanted to keep US from an alliance with Britain
  5. Britain and France at war again
  6. British declared that all ships coming to Europe were subject to search by British navy
  7. French declared that any ships which obeyed the British order would be seized by France
  8. British began stopping US ships and kidnapping crew members, forcing them to serve in the British navy – this is called ______.
  9. 1807: British attacked the US warship ______, forcing its surrender – angered Americans
  10. Jefferson responded with The ______of 1807
  11. Cut off ALL trade between US and Europe
  12. Hurt Americans more than anyone else
  13. Hurt Northern merchants and shipping companies
  14. Hurt Southern and Western farmers who primarily sold their crops in Europe
  15. Act repealed in 1809

IV.James Madison’s Foreign Policy

  1. Economic Warfare
  2. Madison wanted to ban trade with Britain and France, but allow trade with rest of Europe
  3. Congress instead pit England against France to see who would give better terms for trade
  4. France gave US favorable terms, so Congress reopened trade with them
  5. This badly hurt British merchants
  6. Many members of Congress, called ______, began to call for war with Britain
  7. ______of South Carolina
  8. ______of Kentucky
  9. War of 1812 (1812-1815)
  10. Causes
  11. Southern and Western farmers hurt by British trade restrictions
  12. British in Canada supported Native American attacks on settlers in Ohio Valley
  13. British policy of impressments of US sailors
  14. US attempted to invade ______, but failed
  15. British attacked and destroyed ______, but were repelled in their attack on Baltimore
  16. War ended with the ______in December 1814
  17. Both sides agreed to return US and Canada to pre-war borders
  18. No agreement on economic differences or impressments
  19. Battle of ______(January 1815)
  20. US and British forces in Louisiana did not know War of 1812 was over yet
  21. US troops, led by ______, badly defeated a British force trying to seize city of New Orleans
  22. Jackson became a national hero; victory greatly increased US patriotism
  23. The ______Convention
  24. ______strongly opposed War of 1812
  25. Met in Hartford, CT in late 1814 to protest the war
  26. When US won the war, Federalists looked unpatriotic and the party collapsed
  27. Consequences of War of 1812
  28. US gained prestige and respect in Europe for finally fighting and not losing
  29. Increase in US patriotism and sense of national identity
  30. Federalist Party disgraced over its lack of support for the war

V.US relations with Spain

  1. Spain controlled Mexico (which included Texas at the time), Florida, and (prior to 1800) New Orleans and the Louisiana Territory
  2. ______(1795)
  3. Spain gave US free use of the Mississippi River to keep US from allying itself with Britain against Spain
  4. ______(1818)
  5. US troops under Andrew Jackson invaded Florida to stop attacks from Seminole Indians into US
  6. Jackson got carried away and attacked and defeated the Spanish troops protecting Florida
  7. Spain was forced to trade Florida to US in return for US agreeing to a set border between Louisiana (US) and Texas (Spanish)