HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Cotton Gin, Spin Doctors, Party System
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Jefferson and madison tried the embargo, which basically gave britain everything they wanted. Political tides shifted on democratic republicans, who started pressing for war against britain. Jefferson and madison didn"t want a professional military; they relied on a militia. Federalists utterly oppose any kind of war with britain. In order for drs to whip up the populous into a frenzy of war, the newspaper editors did something called waving the bloody petticoat : Claim the indians on the frontier are attacking white women and children (scalping, tomahawking, raping, etc. ) and that they are being directed by the. If men are not brave enough to stand up to this, then they cannot call themselves men. Southern editors brought up how americans were being treated on the high seas: British board american ships and claim the strongest and best and make them part of the british navy and treat them like slaves .
