United States Growing Role

  • Proclamation of Neutrality

    The Proclamation of Neutrality was a formal declaration issued by U.S. President George Washington on April 22, 1793, proclaiming the country impartial in the contention amongst France and Great Britain.
  • XYZ Affair

    The XYZ Affair happened through 1797 and 1798, which included the United States and France. Its name gets from the substitution of the letters X, Y and Z for the names of French ambassadors in reports discharged by the Adams organization. With an end goal to defuse pressures between the United States and France, John Adams sent two American representatives to meet with French authorities.
  • Convention Of 1800

    This covention finished the Quasi-War amongst France and the United States. The Convention finished the organization together amongst France and the United States that had started amid the Revolution.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land bargain between the United States and France, in which the U.S. obtained roughly 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
  • Embargo Act

    The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general ban sanctioned by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France amid the Napoleonic Wars.The Embargo Act, go by Congress on 22 December 1807, was intended to rebuff France and Britain and additionally shield American transportation from any further demonstrations of hostility by either country. The demonstration precluded American boats and merchandise from leaving American ports aside from those vessels in the beach front exchange.
  • War of 1812

    The United States went up against the best maritime power on the planet, Great Britain in this war. This would greatly affect the nation's future. Reasons for the war included Royal Navy's impressment of American sailors and America's longing to extend its region, and British endeavors to confine U.S. exchange.
  • Treaty of Ghent

    The Treaty of Ghent was marked by American and British agents at Ghent, Belgium. This finished the War of 1812. The arrangement said that all vanquished region was to be returned, and commissions were wanted to settle the limit of the United States and Canada.
  • Monroe Doctrine

    The Monroe Doctrine expressed that the United States would not endure any European intercession in the issues of any autonomous country and that America was no longer open to further colonization. The President's "hands-off the western side of the equator" made it clear that the United States had turned into a capable country in world undertakings.