Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 5, Lesson 3: The United States and the World (pp. 153-159)
I. Jefferson's Foreign Policy is Challenged
B. In 1807, Jefferson had Congress pass the Embargo Act, which prohibited American ships from sailing to any foreign ports.
C. Because the Embargo Act greatly hurt the American economy, Congress replaced it two years later with the Non-Intercourse Act, which allowed trade with all nations except France and Great Britain.
II. Madison Pressured into War
B. The war went badly at first, but after several key battles were won, Great Britain and the United States signed a peace treaty in 1814.
C. New England Federalists had opposed the war, but after the victory of the Battle of New Orleans, Federalists lost much of their support.
III. American Influence Expands
B. The Monroe Doctrine, issued in 1823, created two American foreign policy ideals: non-colonization of the Americas by European powers; and nonintervention by Europe and the United States in each other's politics.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. The British and the French, at war with each other, would not honor America's neutrality and seized American ships and men for their own use.
A. Conflict with Britain both at sea and in the northwestern frontiers led President Madison to ask Congress to declare war in June of 1812.
A. In negotiations after the War of 1812 Spain ceded Florida to the United States, and gave up its claim to the Oregon Territory in the Northwest.
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