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For Pol 1812 - CW
Foreign Policy 1812 - Civil War
Question | Answer |
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Demilitarized the Great Lakes; set precedent for the demilitarization of the US-Canadian border | Rush-Bagot Treaty |
Set the northern border between US and Canada at the 49th parallel | Convention of 1818 |
Ceded Spanish Florida to the US; defined the border between the Louisiana Purchase and Spanish Florida; Spain ceded its claim to the Oregon Territory | Adams-Onis Treaty |
Declared an end to New World colonization by Europe and said any intevention in the Western Hemisphere will be considered a threat to the US | Monroe Doctrine |
Resolved disputes over borders with Canada in Maine and upper Midwest | Webster-Ashburton Treaty |
Acquisition of land in southern New Mexico and Arizona for building a railroad | Gadsden Purchase |
Its annexation prompts Mexico to break diplomatic relations with the US | Texas |
Resolved the disposition of the Oregon Country by extending the 49th parallel line to the Pacific | Oregon Treaty |
Ended the Mexican war; gave the US the Mexican Cession and set the border at the Rio Grande | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo |
Opened Japan to US trade in 1954 with a treaty of peace, friendship, and commerce | Matthew Perry |
Declared that Cuba ought to belong to the US and should be taken by force if Spain refused to sell; angered Spain when made public and inflamed northern antislavery sentiment | Ostend Manifesto |
Almost led to a break in relations with Britain during the Civil War after a Union ship seized two Confederate diplomats off of this British ship | Trent Affair |
Purchase of Alaska from Russia after the Civil War | Seward's folly |