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Pickney's treaty - established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain.
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XYZ affair - series of diplomatic events that involved the U.S. and France
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Embargo Act - designed to force Britain and France into respecting US neutrality by cutting off all American shipping to either nation
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Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 - allowed the resumption of world trade with the exclusion of trade with England and France, thus barring French and British vessels from American ports
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War of 1812 - a military conflict, lasting for two-and-a-half years, fought by the United States of America against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, its North American colonies, and its American Indian allies.
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Adams-Onis Treaty - treaty between the United States and Spain in 1819 that gave Florida to the U.S. and set out a boundary between the U.S. and New Spain which is now Mexico
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Indian Removal Act of 1830 - aw authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands
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treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo - The war officially ended with the signing in Mexico of the also added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory
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Clayton-Bulwer Treaty - established that any Central American canal linking the Atlantic to the Pacific would be open to both British and American ships and would not be fortified
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Gadsden Purchase - Purchase is a 29,640-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that was purchased by the United States in a treaty
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Chineese Exclusion Act - restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers
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Hawaiin Annexation - Hawaii was made a territory in 1900
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Platt Amendment - stipulated seven conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish–American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions
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zimmerman telegram - diplomatic proposal from the German Empire offering a military alliance with MexicoAnd the proposal was intercepted and decoded by British intelligence.
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washington naval conference - military conference
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Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act - raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.
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Atlantic Charter - provided a broad statement of U.S. and British war aims.
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New Look Policy - national security policy of the United States which reflected Eisenhower's concern for balancing the Cold War military commitments of the United States with the nation's financial resources.
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Postdam Conference - Big Three—Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Truman—met in Potsdam, Germany, from J to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
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ay of Pigs Invasion - 1961, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government
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Tet Offense - series of major attacks by communist forces in the Vietnam War
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Detente - period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party
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Moscow Olympics Boycott - art of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan
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NAFTA(North American Free Trade Agreement - eliminated all tariffs between the United States and Mexico within 15 years.
