The Barbary Coast states of North Africa included Morocco and Tripoli. Q. Neutrality is the ability to choose sides during a war.

Why did many British and French ships stay home in the mid-1790’s? Many British and French ships stayed home because they were at war, so they captured each other’s ships. To avoid this, their merchant ships stayed home. America took advantage of this and had almost 1000 merchant ships at sea.

Why did reasons the United States shipping industry flourish in the late 1700s? To protect their ships was less expensive to pay tribute than going to war. Britain threatned to seize and search American ships trading with France. France did the same with U.S. ships trading with Britain.

The term Barbary Coast is borrowed from the Barbary Coast of North Africa where local pirates and slave traders launched raids on nearby coastal towns and vessels. That African region was notorious for the same kind of predatory dives that targeted sailors, as had been done on San Francisco’s Barbary Coast.

1. Barbary – a region of northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar; was used as a base for pirates from the 16th to 19th centuries. Barbary Coast – the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates.

In the 1700s, the countries along the southern coastline of the Mediterranean Sea were called the Barbary States. They included Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.

The Barbary States were a collection of North African states, many of which practiced state-supported piracy in order to exact tribute from weaker Atlantic powers. In 1785, Dey Muhammad of Algiers declared war on the United States and captured several American ships. …

Under President Washington, Secretary Jefferson refused to buy peace with the Barbary States. Finally, in 1803, after several years of harsh learning curves, the United States Navy successfully used a show of force to push the Sultan of Morocco into a peace treaty.

The Battle of Derna at Derna, Cyrenaica, was the decisive victory in April–May 1805 of a mercenary army recruited and led by United States Marines under the command of U.S. Army Lieutenant William Eaton, diplomatic Consul to Tripoli, and U.S. Marine Corps First Lieutenant Presley Neville O’Bannon.

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Originally Answered: Can non-Marines say Oorah? If you live in America, you can say nearly anything you want. If you say OOHRAH (Marines) or HOOYAH (SEALS) – and you are neither one, you will just look stupid. FYI, most Marines just say “RAH!” to each other.

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