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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.
The history of U.S. foreign policy from 1776 to 1801 concerns the foreign policy of the United States during the twenty five years after the United States Declaration of Independence (1776). For the first half of this period, the U.S. f8, U.S. foreign policy was conducted by the presidential administrations of George Washington and John Adams .
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 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.
Treaty-making between various Native American governments and the United States officially concluded on March 3, 1871 with the passing of the United States Code Title 25, Chapter 3, Subchapter 1, Section 71 (25 U.S.C. § 71). Pre-existing treaties were grandfathered, and further agreements were made under domestic law.
In foreign policy, Clay was a leading American supporter of the independence movements and revolutions that broke out in Latin America beginning in 1810. [93] Clay frequently called on the Monroe administration to recognize the fledgling Latin American republics, but Monroe feared that doing so would derail his plans to acquire Spanish Florida ...
On the domestic front, Monroe emphasized the nation's strong financial standing, with a significant reduction of the national debt. The public debt had been reduced by over $66 million since 1815, and despite economic difficulties, the government had maintained its expenditures and made progress on important infrastructure projects, such as ...
[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.