Early+Foreign+Policy+Exercise

=Question= What impact did impressment have on American shipping and trade? =Evidence= Page 166, 168
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"what is incomprehensible to me is that the Marquis of Wellesley . . . says that ‘the aggression which led to the war was from the US. not from England.’ is there a person in the world who, knowing the circumstances, thinks this? the acts which produced the war were 1. the impressment of our citizens by their ships of war, and 2. the orders of council forbidding our vessels to trade with any country but England without going to England to obtain a special licence. . . . these categorical and definitive answers put an end to negociation, and were a declaration of a continuance of the war in which they had already taken from us 1000. ships and 6000. seamen. we determined then to defend ourselves and to oppose further hostilities by war on our side also. . . . they expected to give us an exemplary scourging, to separate from us the states East of the Hudson, take for their Indian allies those West of the Ohio, placing 300,000 American citizens under the government of the savages, and to leave the residuum a powerless enemy, if not submissive subjects. I cannot conceive what is the use of your Bedlam, when such men are out of it. . . . The interruption of our intercourse with England has rendered us one essential service in planting radically and firmly coarse manufacturers among us." **Thomas Jefferson to James Maury** Monticello, Virginia, June 16, 1815.
 * EXCERPT**

When was Jefferson president?
 * CHRONOLOGY**

How does that relate to when this letter was written?

Who was president when Jefferson wrote this letter?

What does Jefferson say are the reasons the U.S. declared war on Britain in 1812?
 * PUTTING IT TOGETHER**

What does Jefferson's tone suggest about how the U.S. is perceived by other nations?

How would you say Jefferson feels about the British? Why? Use the evidence from the sources to explain your answer.

=Interpretation=
 * Provide a written statement that uses the sources to answer the main inquiry question at the top.**