Antebellum America 1800-1825 Lecture Notes PDF

**Antebellum America: 1800-1825** **People** **Madison: Elected in 1808** - - **Thomas Jefferson:** - **Shawnee** - **Tenskwatawa** - **The Black Seminoles** - **General Andrew Jackson** - **Events** **Tripolitan War** Conflict between the U.S. and Tripoli (now in...

**Antebellum America: 1800-1825** **People** **Madison: Elected in 1808** - - **Thomas Jefferson:** - **Shawnee** - **Tenskwatawa** - **The Black Seminoles** - **General Andrew Jackson** - **Events** **Tripolitan War** Conflict between the U.S. and Tripoli (now in Libya), incited by American refusal to continue payment of tribute to the piratical rulers of the North. A demand from the pasha of Tripoli for greater tribute and his declaration of war on the U.S. (May 14, 1801) coincided with a decision by U.S. president Thomas Jefferson\'s administration to demonstrate American resolve. **Chesapeake incident** Highlighted American weakness and brought the nation to the brink of war. **War of 1812** Was a war over free trade and sailors rights. Was another example of Africans in the U.S. selecting sides for their freedom. Nearly four thousand enslaved Africns took their freedom. The Africans who sided with the British left with them after the war. **The end of the War** Commissioners signed the treaty of ghent. The U.S. demanded to give back their slaves, but Britain refused to do so. 1826 Britain agreed to pay some money to the former captors of those once enslaved africans. Brought widespread removal of Indians, rescued westward migration. Northern traveled to Genesse Turnpike, Middle states went west on the philadelphia-pittsburgh turnpike and the national road. Southern migration traveled through federal roads and the wilderness. **The Panic of 1819** The first major financial crisis in the U.S. It featured widespread foreclosures, bank failures, unemployment, and a slump in agriculture and manufacturing. Three key causes were inflation, public debt from the war of 1812, and the Louisiana purchase. Those who had purchased land and Africans at inflated prices found themselves in financial trouble. **First Seminole War** Began in 1817 with the US attack on Fowl Town in Georgia. A local chief named Inihamathla warned leaders of nearby Fort Scott not to cross into their territory. Africans and indigenous people raided plantations, freed African captives, and killed settlers. Ended in 1818 with the Battle at Suwanee where Black Seminoles retreated further south into Florida. **Dates** - - - - - - - - - **Data** - - - - - - - - **Concepts** (Word or phrase that does not come up on dictionary) **Accommodationist** Traditionalist factions split many tribes. **Missouri Compromise** Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and declared a policy of prohibiting slavery in the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands. The 16th US congress passed the legislation on March 3, 1820 and President James Monroe signed it on March 6, 1820. The effort to admit Missouri into the union as a slave state caused a crisis. Northerners did not approve the creation of new slave states. It would tip the balance of free states and slave states. Southerners sought to expand slavery. Henry Clay forged a compromise that maintained balance between free and slave states. Southern resentment of Northern attacks on slavery led to greater sectional unity and national tensions.