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

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

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. -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

7. 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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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

14. -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

15. -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