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US & Foreign World
Question | Answer |
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two nations loomed especially large in American foreign policy | France and Britain |
three major international conflicts of the early national period | the Quasi-War with France (1798-1800), the First and Second Barbary Wars (1801-04; 1815), and the War of 1812 (1812-14) |
The first major foreign event to rattle American observers | the French Revolution |
Democratic-Republicans tended to support | French Revolution because it championed the rights of the people against entrenched elites |
Presidents Jefferson and Madison both attempted to use | an embargo and other economic sanctions against Britain and France to avoid the use of military force, for which the new nation was woefully unprepared |
Before the Revolutionary War | public opinion in America was deeply divided over how close the cultural and economic ties between the US and Britain should remain after independence |
The Rush-Bagot Agreement of 1817 | arranged for the demilitarization of the Great Lakes region between the US and Canada, which had been one of the major fronts of the War of 1812 |
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