Class Assignment

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Foreign Affairs and the New Nation
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Foreign Policy

• Native Americans
• British
• French
• Spain

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Native Americans

• Native Americans were displaced as more Americans
  settled west of the Appalachians.
• Chief Little Turtle, of the Miami Confederacy,
  defeated a group of soldiers to secure the Ohio
  Valley area.
• 1794, American troops led by General Anthony
  Wayne, defeated the Native Americans at the
  Battle of Fallen Timbers.
• The Treaty of Greenville was signed promising as
  annual payment to the Native Americans in the
  amount of 10,000. The agreement was not kept,
  but the Native loss
• Battle of Fallen Timbers significant because it
  opened Northwest Territory to settlement.

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France

• French Revolution
• While the British were helping the Native
  Americans take a stand against the United States,
  the new nation struggled to chart a sure course
  in the area of foreign policy.
• 1789 Americans welcomed news of the French
  Revolution.

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France

• France wanted support in the French Revolution
  for Americans and they declared war with Europe
  and Great Britain.
• Americans were divided along party lines.
• Democratic Republicans preferred the French
  Republic to its monarchial foes
• Federalists stated the French Revolution was
  bloody out to destroy religion and social order

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France

• By 1793 Britain and France were at war.
• America issued a proclamation of neutrality
  because they feared they were too weak to become
  involved. Also, feared the lose of trade with
  Britain.
• 1793, Washington formally issued the Proclamation
  of Neutrality.
• Britain tested the neutrality by seizing American
  ship trading with French colonies

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Britain

• To void war with Britain, Washington sent
• Chief Justice John Jay London to negotiate a
  treaty to end British impressments of American
  ships.
• Jay's Treaty of 1794 Instead of agreeing to
  stop impressments, the treaty secured the
  evacuation of British from forts in the Great
  Lakes region.
• America also agreed to repay war debts to
  Britain.
• Not seen favorably in the United States.

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Britain

• Washington and the Federalists favored the
  compromise
• Democratic Republicans saw it as a sellout.

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Spain

• The United States also signed a treaty with
  Spain.
• American needed ship their goods east traveling
  down the Mississippi River to New Orleans.
• Problem Spain controlled the Mississippi River
  to New Orleans.

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Spain

• Thomas Pinckney was sent to Spain in 1795 to
  negotiate a treaty that would allow right of
  navigation of the Mississippi River and the right
  of deposit at New Orleans. Also established the
  northern boundary of Spanish Florida
• Became known as Pinckney's Treaty (AKA Treaty of
  San Lorenzo).
• United States viewed the treaty favorably.
• By 1800 400,000 Americans lived beyond the
  Appalachian Mountains.

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Class Assignment

• The remaining of class time work on your Study
  Guide
• And
• Final Exam Pack
• Supreme Court cases are located in the back of
  your textbook!!!!!!