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Thomas Jefferson took office in 1801 after defeating incumbent President John Adams in the 1800 presidential election.By July 1801, Jefferson had assembled his cabinet, which consisted of Secretary of State James Madison, Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, Secretary of War Henry Dearborn, Attorney General Levi Lincoln Sr., and Secretary of the Navy Robert Smith.
The United States government has been involved in numerous interventions in foreign countries throughout its history. The U.S. has engaged in nearly 400 military interventions between 1776 and 2023, with half of these operations occurring since 1950 and over 25% occurring in the post-Cold War period. [1]
The United States gained little from the settlement other than the suspension of hostilities with the French, but the timing of the agreement proved fortunate for the U.S., as the French made peace with Britain in the 1802 Treaty of Amiens. [134] News of the signing of the convention did not arrive in the United States until after the election.
By 1928 Germany, France and the United States were all interested in a new payment plan, leading to the 1929 Young Plan, named after its chairman, the American Owen D. Young. It established German reparations at 112 billion marks (US$26.3 billion) [128] and created a schedule that would see Germany complete payments by 1988. It was also meant ...
President James K. Polk directed U.S. foreign policy from 1845 to 1849. The history of U.S. foreign policy from 1829 to 1861 concerns the foreign policy of the United States during the presidential administrations of Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan.
Guide to the Diplomatic History of the United States 1775–1921 (1935) bibliographies; out of date and replaced by Beisner (2003) Blume, Kenneth J. Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from the Civil War to World War I (2005) Brady, Steven J. Chained to History: Slavery and US Foreign Relations to 1865 (Cornell University Press, 2022 ...
Thomas Jefferson envisioned America as the force behind a great "Empire of Liberty", [13] that would promote republicanism and counter British imperialism. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803, made by Jefferson in a $15 million deal with Napoleon Bonaparte, doubled the size of the growing nation by adding a huge swath of territory west of the Mississippi River, opening up millions of new farm sites ...
The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States. [1] The doctrine was central to American grand strategy in the 20th century. [2]