Ameliorate the Barbary Pirates

Directions: Students should grammatically correct the sentence(s) below, in red.  There is one missing comma and several words needing capitalization.
because president thomas jefferson did not want to continue to pay high ransoms for kidnapped american sailors he dispatched the united states navy to end the threat to american ships along the north african coast.

suggested answer:

Because President Thomas Jefferson did not want to continue to pay high ransoms for kidnapped American sailors, he dispatched the United States Navy to end the threat to American ships along the North African coast.