Embargo Act of 1807. Both Britain ad France imposed trade restrictions to weaken each others' economies.
They stopped American vessels and forced the American sailors to work on their ships.
It increased America's economic ties with the Allies because British blockade of Germany caused American trade with the Central Powers to virtually cease.
Americans that supported the British, or Loyalists, supported the British in fear of losing their fortunes if the Colonists lost the Indepence War.
Britain practiced in act of impressment which is when American soldiers were kidnapped and Americans neutral rights were violated
The most important single cause was impressment of American seamen into the English Navy. American desire for free trade with all nations -- including France -- also was a source of stress. English Navy ships had seized a number of American trading ships and whalers. England refused to recognize the Lousiana Purchase and American control of the Gulf Coast. Many Americans believed that a war would lead to American control of Canada or even its addition to the Union.
They stopped American vessels and forced the American sailors to work on their ships.
It increased America's economic ties with the Allies because British blockade of Germany caused American trade with the Central Powers to virtually cease.
The British Lusitania was sunk of Ireland by the German submarines. 128 Americans perished. At the time, America was neutral and had nothing to do with the war. However, to be fair, the Germans had no way of knowing if Americans were aboard.
Many historians believe Britain provoked the Indian attacks on America because the British saw Indians as valuable allies. The British military supported the Indians by offering armed resistance to the expansion of the American frontier to the west, in return of attacks on the Americans; and the British had plans of creating a large neutral Indian state which would be located across Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
Americans that supported the British, or Loyalists, supported the British in fear of losing their fortunes if the Colonists lost the Indepence War.
Native Americans attacked Colonial settlements, and settlers killed neutral Native Americans.
Some Northeastern tribes worked with the British, while others with the American forces. Others stayed neutral.
Most Americans preferred to stay neutral and not go to war against other countries. America could advance the cause of freedom and democracy by means other than by war.
(1)the impressment of American seamen (2)the violation of American rights within American territorial waters (3)the violation of America's neutral trade rights by the orders in council (4)the stirring up of frontier Indians
The US supported no one in the French Revolution because America's founding fathers had a great trouble deciding which was better to help the French or not, so they stayedneutral.
Britain practiced in act of impressment which is when American soldiers were kidnapped and Americans neutral rights were violated
America is a large country whose people have many different opinions. Some Americans believed that America could remain neutral during World War 1, some believed that America could but should not stay neutral, and some believed that America could not stay neutral. Initially, those in favor of neutrality were the vast majority. Eventually those supporting participation in the war became a larger and larger fraction of the population, until they were so large that a declaration of war became politically possible.