June 25, 2015
History 111
History 111 Final Exam
1. During mid 1700’s, tension between Great Britain and the colonial United States began to rise. Even before the Revolutionary War, colonists were beginning to pull away from the British and started to form their own ideas and principles. Tensions began after the French and Indian War, in which the colonies and British won against the French and the Indians with help of the British army.
The first grudge that colonists held was the fact that the proclamation line had been created. The proclamation line was a boundary created right after the French and Indian War by parliament in which colonists could not settle any further than that line. Although the line itself hadn’t been a problem (because settlement had not gotten that far yet), but it was what the line represented that angered the colonists. The line represented restriction on the colonists and the colonists didn’t like being …show more content…
Jackson tended to be more aggressive in his approach to polices. For example, the Indian Removal. Although problems with Native Americans have always been prevalent, Jackson is most commonly associated with them because Jackson put in place the first aggressive systematic removal. Whereas Jackson attacked the problem head on, Jefferson tended to take on a more subtle approach. For example when acts of impressment from the British were persisting, Jefferson insisted on putting economic pressure on Great Britain rather than starting a war. Due to tensions and war between Great Britain and France, the British insisted on closing off all imports to France to try and pinch them economically. Unfortunately, the way the British went about this was to seize sailors (including American sailors), force them into the British navy, and stop imports from reaching