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Diplomacy, Exploration, & War in the Early 1800s

Diplomacy, Exploration, & War in the Early 1800s. Mississippi River. Strategic location for American farmers in Kentucky & Tennessee Pickney’s Treaty 1800 = Spain returns Louisiana to France. Sale of Louisiana. 1803 = Negotiations with Napoleon $15 million purchase 827,000 square miles.

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Diplomacy, Exploration, & War in the Early 1800s

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  1. Diplomacy, Exploration, & War in the Early 1800s

  2. Mississippi River • Strategic location for American farmers in Kentucky & Tennessee • Pickney’s Treaty • 1800 = Spain returns Louisiana to France

  3. Sale of Louisiana • 1803 = Negotiations with Napoleon • $15 million purchase • 827,000 square miles

  4. Lewis & Clark • Commissioned 6 months before LA Purchase • Meriwether Lewis, Captain William Clark, French interpreter, Shoshone Sacagawea • 4,000 miles over 2 years

  5. Jefferson’s Relationship with Indians • Paternalism • Expected complete assimilation • Promoted transition to yeoman farming • Government as creditor • Indian women

  6. Tenskwatawa • The Shawnee Prophet • 1805 = Spiritual Awakening • Prophetstown along Tippecanoe River, Indiana

  7. Tecumseh • Born in Ohio area, 1768 • Leader of Pan-Indian movement • Goal = Unite in order to fight land encroachment

  8. War of 1812 • Settler vs. Indian + Britain vs. U.S. • “Peaceable Coercion” • British Navy impressed 6,000 Americans • Conflict in Ohio state + Indiana Territory

  9. Indian Conflict • 1810 = 230,000 white settlers in Ohio • 40,000 in Northwest Territory (Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin) • 70,000 Indians in Ohio + NW Territory • Alliance with Britain • Burning of Prophetstown

  10. 2nd American Revolution • Canada • The White House • Old Hickory • Treaty of Ghent

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