Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
One of the major foreign policy goals of the Adams administration was the expansion of American trade. [148] His administration reached reciprocity treaties with a number of nations, including Denmark, the Hanseatic League, the Scandinavian countries, Prussia, and the Federal Republic of Central America.
[193] [194] Carter had very little foreign policy experience, and he was unable to stop the bitter infighting between his top foreign policy advisers, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, on the dovish side, versus national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski was a hard-line Cold Warrior opposed to Communism and the USSR.
Despite his sterling career in foreign affairs, Adams also proved less than successful at foreign policy. His old rival, British Foreign Secretary George Canning, played a cat-and-mouse game with him. Ever since the Treaty of Paris 42 years earlier, Britain had barred American merchantmen from doing business in its islands in the West Indies ...
The American Age: United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad, 1750 to Present (2nd ed 1994); university textbook; 884pp online; Leffler, Melvyn P. Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920–2015 (Princeton University Press, 2017) 348 pp. Mauch, Peter, and Yoneyuki Sugita.
He acknowledged the impact of international events, particularly the upheavals in Europe and the transition from war to peace, which had affected American commerce and industry. Monroe urged vigilance and continued effort to preserve the nation's stability and prosperity, noting the importance of lessons learned from these challenges.
The period began with the inauguration of Jackson in 1829, while the onset of the American Civil War in 1861 marked the start of the next period in U.S. foreign policy. Jackson's foreign policy focused on expanding trade and settling spoliation claims, and he reached an agreement with Britain to open Canadian and Caribbean ports to U
1820 June 16 Treaty of Sault Ste. Marie: Treaty with the Chippewa 7 Stat. 206: 112 Ojibwe: 1820 July 6 Treaty of L'Arbor Croche and Michilimackinac: Treaty with the Ottawa and Chippewa 7 Stat. 207: 113 Odawa, Ojibwe: 1820 July 19 Treaty of St. Louis: Treaty with the Kickapoo 7 Stat. 208: Kickapoo: 1820 August 11 Treaty of Vincennes: Treaty with ...
March 4, 1825 – Adams becomes the sixth president; Calhoun becomes the seventh vice president; 1825 – Erie Canal is finally completed 1826 – Former presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on the same day, which happens to be on the fiftieth anniversary of the approval of the Declaration of independence.