US+vs+the+Barbary+Pirates

toc =Questions= One of our questions was "Did the Barbary pirates steal from anybody else or from just us?" We came up with that they would steal from anybody that went through there so there is our first dead end. Next we adventured our new question what was the treaty of Tripoli which we googled and we came up with a different document and the answer to the question which was a treaty with the USA and the Barbary Pirates but the document we cam up with was something completly differnet and it was a document of a impressment protection for a man named William Smith which we could not find. But the real main question was what was the treaty of Tripoli. We chose this one because in order to under stand the problem better we had to understand what it was.



=Gathering and Evaluating Evidence= We began by finding how long did it take Jefferson to make the treaty with the Barbary pirates? The struggles we faced were finding how did the treaty of Tripoli stop the conflict sources the documents we used were just the one paper that had the two names Samuel bishop and William Smith on them we considered this soruce by trying to read what it all said but was nearly impossible but most of it was ledgable. We also tried searching for both name but neither of them worked. The only question that came through this stage was our main question or what is the treaty of Tripoli? We learned from the document that was they impressment protection of William Smith. Here is a link to the Impressment pertection. https://www.marinersmuseum.org/sites/micro/usnavy/caption_pages/08b_CWB39ImprssmntProtectio.htm

=Interpretation= We found out that the treaty of Tripoli is the treaty between Jefferson and the Barbary pirates which made Jefferson pay 60,000 and return the soldiers and to end the war. We also learned that Jefferson finish the treaty with the Barbary pirates on Febuary 6, 1778. Our conclusion was not superisng.