The document summarizes early Western expansion and conflicts during this period in the United States. It discusses the Louisiana Purchase which sparked constitutional debates. It also outlines the impacts of the Napoleonic Wars on trade between the US and European powers. The Embargo Act hurt the economy and increased tensions that eventually led to the War of 1812 between the US and Britain. The war concluded with the Treaty of Ghent in 1814.

1. Early Western Expansion & Conflict