1. Foreign Policy Of The New Nation 1789-1810
AP United States History

2. Washington

3. Policy Of Neutrality Washington’s Foreign Policy
George Washington
Don’t get involved in European affairs, except at your own risk.
Protect ourselves.
Policy Of Neutrality Washington’s Foreign Policy

4. Citizen Genet Washington’s Foreign Policy
French revolutionary leader sent to the United States to gain support.
Dismissed Washington’s policy of neutrality.
Violated American law.
Licensed American vessels to operate as privateers.
Grants French commissions to Americans wanting to invade Spanish and British colonies in North America.
Citizen Genet Washington’s Foreign Policy

5. Citizen Genet Washington’s Foreign Policy
Washington asks him to stop.
Genet refuses and appeals to public opinion.
French revolutionary government that gave Genet his commission is overthrown.
Genet cannot return to France or else he would meet monsieur guillotine.
Apologizes to Washington and stays in America.
Citizen Genet Washington’s Foreign Policy

6. Jay’s Treaty Washington’s Foreign Policy
The British are attacking American ships.
Washington sends John Jay to England to negotiate a treaty and keep America from war.
Jay’s proposals are undermined by Hamilton, who informs the British.
Weakens Jay’s ability to bargain.
Jay returns to the United States with a humiliating treaty.
Britain refuses to budge on the rights of neutrals.
Will not leave outposts in the West.
The only thing the United States received is a reconfirmation of rights already given to America in the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
Jay is disgraced and Americans want war with Britain.
Jay’s Treaty Washington’s Foreign Policy

7. Adams

8. International Intrigue Adams’s Foreign Policy
The Many Heads Of The French Revolution
XYZ Affair, Alien & Sedition Acts.
International Intrigue Adams’s Foreign Policy

9. Goals Of Adams Adams’s Foreign Policy
Stay out of war.
Adams is successful despite the urgings of his party.
Increases in military expenditures.
Goals Of Adams Adams’s Foreign Policy

10. Jefferson

11. Barbary Pirates Jefferson’s Foreign Policy
Piracy.
North African Arab nations were seizing American and European vessels and crews for ransom.
Nations paid an annual tribute to the pirates in exchange for safe passage.
Jefferson refuses to pay.
United States becomes the only nation to resist.
Tripoli declares war on the United States.
Stephen Decatur and Edward Preble lead a squadron to the Mediterranean.
The frigate Philadelphia is destroyed by American forces after it runs aground.
Americans negotiate a new treaty that is more favorable to American trade.
Barbary Pirates Jefferson’s Foreign Policy

12. Napoleonic Wars Jefferson’s Foreign Policy
The Continental System.
The Berlin & Milan Decrees.
Issued by Napoleon to hurt Great Britain.
“All commerce and correspondence” with Britain is illegal.
Any vessel that submitted to British rules is “to have become British property” and therefore subject to seizure.
Napoleon’s navy attacks neutral shipping.
Napoleon Issues The Berlin
& Milan Decrees
Napoleonic Wars Jefferson’s Foreign Policy

13. Napoleonic Wars Jefferson’s Foreign Policy
Orders in Council.
British response to the Continental System.
Unlike France, Britain had a strong navy to back it up.
Blockaded major ports in Europe and barred foreign vessels from entering unless they traveled to British ports first.
Impact on America.
Made it difficult for American merchants to trade.
Napoleonic Wars Jefferson’s Foreign Policy

14. Impressment Controversy Jefferson’s Foreign Policy
Origins.
Under British law, any able-bodied subject could be drafted into the Royal Navy in times of emergency.
British captains could send “press gangs” into British ports to round up recruits.
Stop NEUTRAL vessels and remove any British subjects.
British harassment
ships do more than take British subjects
Took any young man that they wanted.
Confiscated food, supplies, and cargo.
Abused the ship captain and remaining crew.
Impressment Controversy Jefferson’s Foreign Policy

15. Impressment Controversy Jefferson’s Foreign Policy
3rd POTUS Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson’s view.
Avoid war at all costs.
The British had the right to take British citizens.
Drew the line at the taking of naturalized Americans.
Impressment Controversy Jefferson’s Foreign Policy

16. Impressment Controversy Jefferson’s Foreign Policy
British capitulation.
Did not claim the right to impress native-born Americans, only naturalized ones.
“Once an Englishman, always an Englishman.”
When it could be proven that an impressed sailor was native-born, that sailor was released by the British government.
Over 3800 would be released.
REFUSED to abandon impressments.
Embargo Act of 1807
Origins
Over 700 American ships were captured by the British and French from
Jefferson’s foreign policy proves to be too weak.

17. Embargo Act Of 1807 Jefferson’s Foreign Policy
Chesapeake incident.
June 22, 1807, the HMS Leopard stops the USS Chesapeake outside Norfolk.
Demands the return of four sailors.
American captain refuses.
British officer returns to his ship, opens fire on the Chesapeake, kills four Americans and then takes the sailors.
Violation of international law.
To avoid war, and knowing that it was in the wrong, Britain admits it.
The American press wants war, but Jefferson only orders British ships to leave American waters.
Embargo Act Of 1807 Jefferson’s Foreign Policy

18. Embargo Act Of 1807 Jefferson’s Foreign Policy
The Embargo Act.
Jefferson’s answer to the indignities of the French and British.
Prohibited all exports.
American and foreign vessels could not carry cargo out of the country.
Jefferson’s goals.
Keep America out of the war.
Keep American merchants safe by taking them off the seas.
Cut off American goods and markets.
Puts pressure on Britain and France to change their policy with America.
The “Ograbme.”
“Cut off the toe to heal the corn.”
Hurt the American economy, especially in New England.
Foreign commerce was the chief reason for American prosperity.
Now America will suffer.
In one year, exports drop from $108 million to $22 million.
In one year, imports drop from $138 million to $57 million.
Embargo Act Of 1807 Jefferson’s Foreign Policy