Today
 Simulation synthesis
 JAM!
 Treaty of Ghent Video
 Post-War Development Lecture
United States
 1st Period: Return of half of impressed sailors
 2nd Period: Un-inhibited westward expansion,
Neutrality
 3rd Period: Free trade agreement with UK, Purchase of
NA lands
 4th Period: Un-inhibited westward expansion, return of
all sailors
 5th Period: Long term peace between the US and the
UK, westward expansion without disturbing Canadian
claims
Great Britain
 1st Period: Mediated US westward expansion
 2nd Period: Alliance with the US for future international
disputes
 3rd Period: No tariffs on British goods imported into the
United States
 4th Period: Guaranteed land for Native Americans, maintain
trade with the United States
 5th Period: Guaranteed state for Native Americans, no tariffs
on British goods
Native Americans
 1st Period: The state of Ohio, guarantee of safety, $2 million
from the US, $1/2 million from the UK
 2nd Period: Guaranteed territory, war compensation from
the British, able to sell land to frontiersman
 3rd Period: Representative in the United State government
 4th Period: Guaranteed territory, compensation from the
British, recognized as a sovereign nation
 5th Period: Guarantee of land, guarantee of safety, fair trade
with the US and UK
Take a minute…
 To discuss the importance of protecting the rights of
the Native Americans during this activity:
 Was it a priority for the US and UK? Why or why not?
 Was it evident in the ACTUAL Treaty of Ghent?
Take a minute…
 To discuss the significance of trade during this activity.
 Why was trade a recurring theme in all class
simulations?
 Why is this important?
 What roll does $$$ play in starting a war? In ending
one?
Take a minute…
 To discuss the significance of negotiating US
expansion in EVERY class period.
 Why was this a recurring theme?
Take a minute…
 To discuss the significance of this activity.
 What did you learn?
 How would you enhance this activity?
Protective Tariff 1816
 What is a ‘protective’ tariff ?
 The first protective tariff in the nation’s history was
passed in 1816 to the slow the flood of cheap British
manufactures into the country. Why?
Rush-Bagot Treaty 1817
 An agreement between the United States and Great
Britain to stop maintaining armed fleets on the Great
Lakes
 First “disarmament” agreement in US History
 Still in effect
Andrew Jackson Invades
Florida
 First Seminole War
 Prompted by troubles with the Indians in Florida
Andrew Jackson, acting under ‘dubious’ authority,
decides to invade.
 He hangs two British subjects, reoccupies Pensacola
and raises the American Flag
 Clear violation of international law, his ‘hero’ status
exempts him from prosecution.
Indian Policy
 US Government begins to systematically pressure all
the Indian tribes remaining in the East to cede their
lands and ‘accept’ new homes west of the Mississippi
 Most declined the offer
Barbary Wars 1815
Adams-Onis Treaty 1819