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Cause and effect:
-operated from North America
- main ports: Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli
-Barbary slave raids- captured europeans and christians for the Ottoman Slave Trade
-Over 1 million people were captured to be sold as slaves during the 16th -19th centuries
- captured thousands of ships of the coasts of Spain and Italy
- In the early 1800s, The United States along with some European countries fought against the Barbary Pirates in the First and Second Barbary Wars and won.
-Admiral Andrew Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, a British naval officer, was sent to Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers to secure new concessions
- Britain was anti-slavery and many were upset over the enslavement of many British (and British affiliates) captives
- the concessions he went to secure included a pledge to treat Christian captives as POWs
- many more missions like this had to be carried out
- several times, the British had to send fleets to bombard the coasts of Algiers and Tunis
- it was not until the French conquest in 1830 until Corsair-based activity in Algiers stopped
- The government under the Articles of Confederation was severely limited and could do little to do anything
- In 1784, Congress agreed to spend $80,000 to bribe the pirates
- despite the Tripoli ambassador agreeing to halt attacks on American vessels, they proceeded nonetheless
- America lacked a proper navy to guard its trade
- soon, the Barbary pirates demanded tribute grew to nearly 20% of the country's national budget
- in 1794, George Washington authorized the construction of 6 frigates;