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/ Treaty of Mortefontaine
between the United States of America and France ended the 1798–1800 Quasi-War, an undeclared naval war waged primarily in the Caribbean, and terminated the 1778 Treaty of Alliance. -
George Washington / Jay Treaty
Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of America, was a 1795 treaty between the United States and Great Britain that averted war, resolved issues remaining since the Treaty of Paris of 1783 -
George Washington / Whiskey Rebellion
was a uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax enacted by the federal government. ... Opposition to the whiskey tax and the rebellion itself built support for the Republicans -
Thomas Jefferson / Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. -
John Quincy Adams / Tarriff of Abominations
The controversial Tariff of Abominations was designed to protect American industry from cheaper British commodities. Opposition to the rise of taxes on raw materials, like cotton and tobacco, in the South led to the Nullification Crisis -
Martin Van Buren / Panics of 1837 & 1839
a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down while unemployment went up. Pessimism abounded during the time. The panic had both domestic and foreign origins. -
James Polk / Oregon Treaty
This agreement set the boundary between the United States and Canada at the 49th parallel west of the Rocky Mountains, veering around Vancouver Island and then proceeding through the Strait of San Juan de Fuca. -
Zachary Taylor / Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Clayton–Bulwer Treaty was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain negotiated in 1850... It resolved tensions over American plans to build a Nicaragua Canal that would connect the Pacific and the Atlantic. -
Franklin Pierce /Kanagawa Treaty
In Tokyo, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the U.S. government, signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and permitting the establishment of a U.S. consulate in Japan. -
Abraham Lincoln / Civil War
American Civil War was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The Civil War is the most studied and written about episode in U.S. history. Primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people. -
Herbert Hoover / Boxer Rebellion
a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. -
William McKinley / Big Stick Diplomacy
Big Stick diplomacy is the policy of carefully mediated negotiation supported by the unspoken threat of a powerful military... used Big Stick diplomacy in many foreign policy situations. -
Theodore Roosevelt / Square Deal
the Square Deal was a set of policies that attempted to prevent further labor abuses and improve workplace safety, protect the natural landscape, and improve the overall health and well-being of Americans. -
Woodrow Wilson / Federal Reserve Act
Established the Federal Reserve System as the central bank of the United States to provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. -
Woodrow Wilson / Veracruz Incident
Veracruz began with the Battle of Veracruz and lasted for seven months, as a response to the Tampico Affair of April 9, 1914. The incident came in the midst of poor diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States, and was related to the ongoing Mexican Revolution. -
Calvin Coolidge / The Dawes plan
The Dawes Plan was an initial plan in 1924 to resolve the World War I reparations that Germany had to pay, which had strained diplomacy following World War I and the Treaty of Versailles. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt / Neutrality Act of 1937
Congress passed a joint resolution outlawing the arms trade with Spain. The Neutrality Act of 1937 was passed in May and included the provisions of the earlier acts, this time without expiration date, and extended them to cover civil wars as well. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt / Great Depression Ended
Great depression was ended, and prosperity restored, by the sharp reductions in spending, taxes and regulation at the end of World War II, exactly contrary to the analysis of Keynesian so-called economists. -
George Marshall / Marshall Plan
an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II -
Harry S. Truman / Fair Deal
His Fair Deal recommended that all Americans have health insurance, that the minimum wage (the lowest amount of money per hour that someone can be paid) be increased, and that, by law, all Americans be guaranteed equal rights -
Dwight D. Eisenhower / SEATO
the United States, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakistan formed the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, or SEATO. SEATO Meeting in Manila. The purpose of the organization was to prevent communism from gaining ground in the region. -
John F. Kennedy / Alliance for progress
Alliance for Progress aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America. -
John F. Kennedy / Peace Corps
signed congressional legislation creating a permanent Peace Corps that would promote world peace and friendship through three goals: to help the peoples of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women; to help promote a better understanding of Americans -
Lyndon Johnson / Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. -
Richard Nixon / SALT
first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. -
Richard Nixon / Watergate
revealed following the arrest of five burglars at Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office-apartment-hotel complex in Washington, D.C. Facing likely impeachment for his role in covering up the scandal, Nixon became the only U.S. president to resign -
Jimmy Carter / Camp David Accords
Camp David Accords, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979. -
Ronald Reagan / Iran - Contra Affair
U.S. political scandal in which the National Security Council (NSC) became involved in secret weapons transactions and other activities that either were prohibited by the U.S. Congress or violated the stated public policy of the government. -
George H.W. Bush / Persian Gulf War
international conflict that was triggered by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, ordered the invasion and occupation of Kuwait with the apparent aim of acquiring that nation’s large oil reserves, canceling a large debt Iraq owed Kuwait, and expanding Iraqi power in the region. -
George W. Bush / 9/11
Attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001
