Embargo Act DBQ Essay

American history is our hope for the future because it is important to the United States government to learn from past mistakes, and citizens need to understand the value that freedom provides to the american society. But most importantly Americans need to understand what the U.S. Constitution is and how it has affected America. One of the many mistakes that America has made is the Indian Removal Act. On May 28, 1830 President Andrew Jackson signed into law that all Native Americans west of the Mississippi River must be removed, and sent to what is known as the state of Oklahoma. Their forced march from southeast to the west was devastating. This caused over 4,000 innocent lives to be ended. This was a mistake, Americans were forcing Native

(Cite?) From the beginning of hostilities between Great Britain and France in 1803, the United States has found it difficult to steer a neutral course. Hoping to gain economic superiority, both nations attempted to restrict neutral countries from trading with each other. Later on the USS Chesapeake incident happen persuaded Thomas Jefferson to retaliate by pushing the Embargo Act. This act was designed to punish the European nations and make it where American ships and goods were prohibited from leaving the American ports except for those in the coastal trade. The Embargo Act caused an increase of financial loss for America because of this on March 1, 1809 the Embargo Act was replaced with the Nonintercourse Act. The mistake made was that Jefferson thought if he placed the act then everyone would come to their senses and good trade relations between the three countries would be restored. We have learned that we should leave the economy how it is from our past

The freedom of speech is important because it gives us the ability to express our thoughts and opinions. (Cite) Magazine editor, Rachael Jolley said, “ Free speech has always been important throughout history because it had been used to fight for change. When we talk about rights today they would not have been achieved without free speech. Think about a time from the past-women not being able to vote, or the terrible working conditions in the mines- free speech is important as it has helped change these things.” Most people take the freedom of speech for granted because they do not realize how privileged we are to have