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The Proclamation of Neutrality was an announcement issued by President George Washington in 1793, declaring that the United States would be neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain.
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Americans went on a diplomatic mission to France because of the rising tensions and the French diplomats known as XYZ tried to get the Americans to bribe them. This caused in Uproar in the states.
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The convention of 1800 was a treaty between the United States of America and France to settle the hostilities that had erupted during the Quasi-War.
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This purchase made by Thomas Jefferson gave the United States the Louisiana Territory for only 15 million dollars. This is equivalent to the modern amount of 236 million dollars. This doubled the size of the United States.
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The Embargo act of 1807 put an embargo on trade with Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars. One thing that led to this and eventually the War of 1812 was impressmen by the British.
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The war of 1812 began in the year 1812. This war was a fight between the United States and Britain. The War ended with the treaty of Grant although the most famous battle of the war in new orleans was fought after the signing of the treaty and gave Andrew Jackson his fame. This war showed the world that America could defend its self.
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This treaty which was signed in the city of Ghent, was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The treaty returned the borders back to what they were before the war of 1812.
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This treaty was signed by President James Monroe in which he told the European powers that they were obligated to respect the Western Hemisphere as the United States' sphere of interest.