Ch. 9 Sec. 3 – A Time of Conflict
(p. 322-326)
MAIN IDEAS
Defeating the Barbary Pirates
(p. 322-323)
NOTES
 America was trading around the world
 India = ice from New England states (big blocks packed in barrels of saw dust)
1.) ____________________________________________________________________ American ships
in the _______________________________________________________________________________
 Pirates came from the Barbary States which were countries in northern Africa – Morocco, Algiers,
Tunisia, and Tripoli
2.) _________________________________________________________________________________
 Tributes = money paid by one country to another in return for protection
 Barbary States asked for more money
3.) 1801 - ___________________________________________________________________________
American merchant ships
 US Philadelphia ran aground near Tripoli
 Crew was imprisoned and ship taken by pirates
 Stephan Decatur raided the Tripoli harbor and burned the US Philadelphia (1804)
4.) 1805 – US ________________________________________________________________________
and ________________________________________________________________________________
 Marched across the Sahara Desert to reach Tripoli
 Gave Americans some confidence in the USA’s ability to defend itself against foreign enemies
 Today in the US Marine Corps anthem = “To the shores of Tripoli”
American Neutrality is Challenged
(p. 323-324)
1.) _________________________________________________________________________________
with each other in 1803
 USA stayed neutral
2.) _________________________________________________________________________________
3.) Both countries _____________________________________________________________________
 France seized 500 US ships
 Britain seized 1,000 US ships
4.) _________________________________________________________________________________
 Thousands of American sailors were forced to serve in the British navy
 Jefferson tried to avoid going to war with Britain and France
Embargo Act (1807)
(p. 324-325)
1.) US ships were _____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
 passed by Congress in 1807
 Jefferson hoped that Britain and France would agree to stop attacking American ships if they lost
trade with the USA
 Jefferson thought that by not trading with any country, France and Britain wouldn’t have any way to
get American products except to trade directly with the US and they would have to agree to not attack
American ships.
2.) The USA _________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
 Exports fell from $109 million to $25 million
 Prices of American crops declined and thousands of Americans lost jobs
3.) _____________________________________________ in order to ___________________________
 Merchants in New England were angry about the embargo because the lost business
4.) ____________________________________________________________ the Embargo Act in 1809
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(p. 322-326)
 passed by Congress to replace the Embargo Act
Nonintercourse Act (1809)
 Nonintercourse = no trading
1.) __________________________________________________________________________, except
____________________________________________________________________________________
2.) stated that the US would begin to ______________________________________________________
______________________________ if they ________________________________________________
Tecumseh and Prophet
(p. 325)
 Battle of Fallen Timbers and Treaty of Greenville
 Settlers moved west and took more Indian land
 Ohio became a state in 1803
1.) ____________________________________________________________ on Native Americans
a.) ________________________________________________________________________________
 Measles, smallpox, influenza
 Indians’ immune systems couldn’t fight these new germs
b.) Settlers __________________________________________________________________________
2.) Tecumseh and Prophet _________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________(1805)
 Shawnee Indians
 Brothers
 Tenskwatawa = Prophet = medicine man / spiritual guide
a.) ________________________________________________________________________________
b.) ________________________________________________________________________________
Battle of Tippecanoe (1811)
(p. 326)
 William Henry Harrison = Governor of Indiana Territory
 Marched a 1,000 soldiers to attack the Indian Confederation on the Tippecanoe River
 Tecumseh was traveling to get support from other tribes – Only Prophet was in the village
1.) ____________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
2.) ____________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________
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