HIST 127 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Little Turtle, Embargo Act Of 1807
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Treaty of ghent (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1: visions of the future outside of the united states. Americans/injured others, huge defeat, one of the greatest. Indians asked nearby british for help, but they refused. Spaniards and creeks (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1: creeks were angry about the treaty of paris, wanted to stop colonists from expanding, americans thought they could take land, they disliked this. Empire of liberty- t. jefferson, wanted to spread west and take the land of the indians because of liberty, thought it would be good for them too. Wanted to turn the land into agriculture land, major deforestation: louisiana purchase (1803) Needed a way to transport goods, but the mississippi belonged to. Napoleon wanted to put down troops, take louisiana, lose to haitian revolutionaries, but then sells louisiana to the us for 15 mill, he was worried: the war of 1812. Britain/france/spain with embargo act that stopped trade with other countries: american farmers wheat was feeding the textile workers in.
