Question | Answer |
4 Aspects of Philosophical Underpinnings | 1) Right to individual security
2) Right to revolt
3) utopia vs. pragmatism
4) rational accommodation of Reasonable interests (enlightenment) |
Jay's Treaty 1792 | 1) surrender NW forts
2) abort efforts to unite indians
3) US = MFN
4) open trade with british west indies
-says nothing about impressment
-Br. can seize US ships heading to/from France |
Hamiltonian Foreign policy | -don't need to honor treaty with France because it applied to old king
-convinced Washington to declare neutrality (Jefferson wanted congress to declare this)
-Trade important |
Model Treaty of 1776 | -US trade with all and not start war with europe
-secure borders
-seen as equal |
XYZ affair | -Br. seize foodstuffs bound for France
-Fr would treat neutral ships the way Br. treats French ships
-Fr. refuse to see US ambassador
-Fr. seize US ships to pay for US debt
-US almost goes to war with Fr. |
Treaty of Alliance | -Fr. recognizes US as nation
-US guaranteed Fr. possessions in US
-Fr. doesn't go back to US
-US can't have peace with Br. without Fr. consent |
Treaty of Yorktown 1781 | -ends war
-Br. withdraw army
-agree to not recover debts
-Sp. gets Florida back |
Citizen Edward Genet | Fr. Ambassador
wanted to draw US into war against rebels in Fr. |
Precedents set by Genet/Jefferson | 1) de facto recognition: ruling power is only power recognized
2) sanctity of Treaty: Jefferson - treaty with nation
Hamilton - treaty with government
Jefferson won |
War of 1812: causes | 1) impressment
2) Chesapeake Affair: US refuse to let GB on ship to see if it carries Fr. goods, ship blown up by GB |
Treaty of Ghent 1814 | ends war of 1812
- prewar boundaries reset |
Manifest Destiny | Jane McManus Storm - original writer
peaceful expansion
god given right |
Monroe Doctrine | -hands off western world
-non interference
-non transfer = territory can't be used in treaties nor transferred to new nation
-non colonization |
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848 | texas = state
rio grande = new southern border
Mexico = cedes California and New Mexico |
Missouri Compromise 1820 | balanced congress
took Missouri as slave state
Maine = free state |
Fugitive Slave Act 1850 | N. help recover/send back slaves |
Manifest Destiny 1850 | Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
Dread Scott vs. Sandford 1857 - congress can't prohibit slavery = missouri compromise not constitutional
Gadson Purchase = bought land under texas from Mexico |
Clayton Bulwar Treaty 1846 | US/GB can't colonize LA |
Age of Imperialism Factors | 1) econ situation
2) social Darwinism
3) race for empire |
Liberal School of thought | laze-faire
worker unions
free markets |
Modern School | some gov. intervention |
Pinckney's Treaty 1795 | right to navigate Mississippi River
gain east florida |
Jefferson's vision for US | citizens main priority, organizations/gov. came second |
treaty of san ildefonzo | b/t Fr. and Sp. = Louisiana goes back to Fr. |
Adams-Onis Treaty | Sp. gave US Florida |
Rush-Bagot Treaty | limited Naval activity of GB on great lakes |
Convention of 1818 | settled NW boundary
allowed fishing on east coast |
extraterritoriality | exempt from law of nation/area |
Alfred Thayer Mahan | countries with greater naval power = more power worldwide |
Treaty of Kanagawa | opened ports in Japan to US traders
leader = Commodore Matthew Perry |
Virginius Affair | Ship used by cuban rebels to attack Spain
full of US and Br. soldiers - killed by Spain as pirates |