US World Affairs Over Time

  • Proclamation of Neutrality

    President George Washington declaring the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain.
  • XYZ Affair

    Americans are insulted by bribe issused by French Officals
  • 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.
  • Louisiana Purchase

    the United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France
  • Embargo Act

    law stopped all trade between America and any other country
  • War of 1812

    The War of 1812 was a military conflict, lasting for two-and-a-half years, between the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
  • Treaty of Ghent

    peace treaty that ended the War of 1812
  • Monroe Doctrine

    US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries in 1823 It stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention