Chapter 12 Guided Notes (Part I) Mr. Fickes American History 8th Grade

-Washington introduced a policy of ___________________________, meaning to stay out of other countries business. Adams tried to do the same upon his presidency. neutrality

The Jay Treaty -Chief Justice John Jay was sent to England to settle things with the British. Americans wanted British ____________________ to be taken out of the Ohio Valley. -The Jay Treaty was when the British agreed to pull _______________ out of the Ohio Valley. forts troops

-The French viewed this as _____________________ and began ______________________ American merchant ships headed for Britain. betrayal attacking

The XYZ Affair -President Adams tried to send ________ to France to end the attacks, instead they were met by secret __________________ identified as X,Y, and Z. -The agents refused peace talks, unless they received a large sum of _________. representatives agents money

-Adams refused, instead sent ships to attack the French fleet, capturing more than __________ armed French vessels. -Adams ended up asking for __________________ and to no longer have an alliance with France. 80 peace

Impressment -By 1803 France and Britain were at war again. Due to this American merchant ships supplying the ________________ were being captured. -President Thomas Jefferson complained that “England has become a den of _________________ and France had become a den of ________________. enemy pirates thieves

-Yet Jefferson continued the policy of ________________________. -Remaining neutral was hard enough, the Britain began impressing, or ______________________ American sailors. neutrality kidnapping

-The issue of impressment reached its peak in 1807 when the British warship, the ____________, stopped an American warship, the ____________________. Leopard Chesapeake

-The Chesapeake’s captain refused the British sailors request to board and the men of the Leopard opened ________________, killing ______ American sailors. fire 21

Piracy -American ships faced a different threat from the ______________ States, piracy. -These pirates seized the ships and held their crews for ____________________. Barbary ransom

-Washington and Jefferson both secretly paid ____________, or money to Barbary rulers in exchange for sailors safety. tribute

Embargo Act of 1807 -When British ships continued impressing American ships and Barbary states continues to _________ American ships, President Jefferson proposed an embargo. -An embargo is a complete halt in ___________________ with other nations. plunder trade

-Under The Embargo Act of 1807, no ___________________ ships could enter U.S. ports, and no American ships could leave, except to trade at other U.S. ports. foreign

-Jefferson did this in an attempt to be painful to France and Britain so they would quit ________ U.S. ships, instead it made _______________ seamen lose their jobs. -The Embargo Act was repealed in _______________. attacking 55,000 1809