What foreign policy did George - Smithtown Central School...
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Early US Presidents
1789-1797
President Washington
1797-1801
President Adams
1801-1809
President Jefferson
1809-1817
President Madison
1817-1825
President Monroe
Napoleonic Wars 1799-1815
Britain v. France
Battle of Waterloo - approximately 70,000 casualties and losses!
Jefferson’s Policy
• Maintain Neutrality
– Claimed “freedom of the
Seas”
• Britain refuses to stop
intercepting US ships
• Embargo Act
– US would not trade with
Britain or France
• Embargo FAILS!
British attack and burn Washington DC
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?....
Star Spangled Banner
by Francis Scott key
Effects of the
War of 1812
Justified
neutrality
policy
American
manufacturing
grew
Weakened the
Federalist
Party
Andrew Jackson
becomes a
national hero
Increased Nationalism
(Star Spangled Banner)
Restored the
“status quo”