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Both the embargo of 1807and the War of 1812 cut off access to manufactured British goods. That caused America to build their own factories in the Northeast.
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www.shmoop.comThe USS Chesapeake was sailing off the Virgina Coast when the British war ship, the Leopard set fire on them. The Chesapeake's commander refused to let the British to enter the ship and search for British navy deserters. This made the American public outraged and Thomas Jefferson ordered all British ships out of American waters.
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www.infoplease.comThe Embargo Act of 1807 was passed by the U.S. Congress in answer to the British orders in council resticting neutral shipping and to Napoleon's restrictive Continental System. This caused the U.S. to suffer from the British and French.
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www.infoplease.comCongress passed an act that was suppose to make enforcement more rigid, but resistance approached to the point that people started to rebel, especially in New England.
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www.warof1812.caBefore the War of 1812 happened, the U.S. were in the Battle of Tippecanoe where the U.S. ended up getting victory of the Indians. Before that battle, the U.S. War Congress came together for a meeting.
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www.pbs.orgGeneral William Hull entered Canada but this happened to be the first of his three failed attempts by the U.S. to invade Canada. The British also forced the people of Fort Michilimackinac (present day Michigan) to surrender.
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www.pbs.orgAt the Battle of Frenchtown, British and Indian allies drove off American troops. Any American survivors were killed the next day in the Raisin River Massacre.
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Congress imposed the tariff to import designed to protect American Industry. The tariff increased the price of imported manufactured goods by an average of 20 to 25. It helped the industry, but it hurt farmers, who had to pay higher prices for consumer goods.
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During this time, the Lowell Mill girls held strikes when employers cut their wages and increased their charges for boating.They then left their jobs and temporarily shut down the factory. The strikes failed to achieve their goals and returned to work.
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www.uml.eduOne of the first strikes led by female workers was because of the result of Lowell textile corporations cutting wages.
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In 1835, factory owners turned to the courts once in a while for protection. A New York City court convinced around 20 tailors of conspiracy for forming a union. The convictions angered workers but neither the union movement nor the Workingmen's Party prospered in the early 1800s.
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www.uml.eduThe city of Lowell was incorporated as the 2nd biggest city in Massachusetts with a population of 17,633 with almost 9,000 of those being textile workers
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Most membersof the new middle class and most of the nation's farmers had been born in the U.S. The working class was compromised of immigrants. The number of immigrants doubled to 1,500,000 during the 1840s snd nearly doubled again to 2,800,000.
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In the Northeast, immigration boosted. It also prompted urban growth. Immigrants also compromised more than 40% of the population of New York City. Some working-class immigrants moved on to new cities in the Midwest, including Cinconnati, Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit. Very few went to the south.
