1. A Time of Conflict Chapter 7, Section 1

2. Freedom of the Seas I. Sailing in foreign seas was dangerous
Pirates from Tripoli and other Barbary Coast States of North Africa

3. They raided ships and demanded Tribute
Tribute: protection for money to allow ships to pass

4. II. 1804 – Pirates seized ship
Captain Stephen Decatur burned the ship and escaped in a small boat.

5. We had to pay a ransom for the crew
Tripoli agreed to stop demanding tribute

6. III. U.S. had neutral rights from 1803 – 1805
Trade Prospered

7. IV. IN 1805 Britain and France began seizing ships
British needed soldiers.
Stopped ships to search for deserters
Forced many Americans to serve in the British Navy (Impressment)

8. V. Jefferson stopped trade with Britain.
Congress enacted the Embargo act in 1807
It was ineffective

9. VI. James Madison was elected president in 1808.

10. War Fever
VII. In 1810, Bonaparte ended France’s trade restrictions with the U.S.
French continued to seize
American ships

11. Tecumseh – a powerful Shawnee chief
Built a confederacy among Native American nations to stop the white movement into their lands.

12. Tecumseh’s brother, The Prophet, urged followers to return to Native American ways.
Set up a village in Northern Indiana called Prophetstown.

13. William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana, attacked Prophetstown in the Battle of Tippecanoe.
Many Native Americans fled to Canada

14. War Hawks: a group of young nationalistic Republicans
They were Led by Henry Clay & John Calhoun
They pressured the president to declare war on Britain.

15. By Spring of 1812, Madison had decided that war with Britain was inevitable (unavoidable)