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Cotton Production
In 1790 there was 10,000 bales of cotton produced. In 1810 it increased to 180,000 bales of cotton. -
Louisiana Territory taken away
Forcing Spain to give up their Losisiana Territory was the France military dictator Napoleon Bonaparte. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte, a French military dictator forced spain to give him the Louisiana Territory. If they refused the French threatened to block America from access to markets in New Orleans. -
Purching Louisiana
LinkJefferson wanteed to avoid war so he offered to buy New Orleans from the French. After paying $15 million for the 828,000 square miles of land, it almost doubled the United stated land.Jefferson says “There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans.” -
Lewis and Clark Expedition
LinkSent by Jeffersons command, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark exsplored the new territory, guided by Sacajawea, and her husband most of the way. -
Conclusion of The Barbaric War
linkIn 1801 Jefforson had a small American navy to blockade ports of Tripoli, in result winning a faverable piece in 1805 -
profits
British merchants began to lose their markets and profits to American shippers, so Britsh warships started stopping and confiscating American merchant ships that were growing in number. They traded with French after they confiscated Americans items. -
Re-export Trade
"re-export" trade soared in 1790 from about $300,000 to nearly $59 million in 1807 -
Embargo
linkJefferson put an embargo to avoid war. The embargo was to suspend trade with the British by ordering American ships toin the port. -
New ships
Shipyards in America produced hundreds of new ships. This increased the size of the nations merchant marine. -
Attack on warshipes
The British commander requested permission to search the ship, and the American commodore James Barron refused to let him desterb his crew. Moments later, the captain of the Leopard responded, killing three Americans and wounding eighteen. -
Effect of exspanding
Surplus produce raised on its new farms, making the United States ned to exspand overseas markets. War in Europe focused on that goal from 1793 to 1807. -
Chesapeake
LinkBritish attacked the Chesapeake, an American warship, in order to take some saliors. It outraged many Federalists and Americans. -
Lifting the Embargo
With Jefferson admiting to failing, he lifted the embargo just before retirering from presidency. -
impressment by the British
Link6,000 American citizans were taken from their ships to serve on the harsh duty of the British warships.Acknowledging the problem Thomas Jefferson says "The practice in Great Britain of impressing seamen whenever war is apprehended will fall more heavily on ours, than on those of any other foreign nation, on account of the sameness of language."
