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In 1797, George Washington was succeeded by another Federalist, John Adams, who became involved in an undeclared naval war against Napoleon's France, the Quasi-War. In an atmosphere of war hysteria, the Federalist-controlled Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798. These measures allowed the deportation or arrest of "dangerous" foreigners and prescribed fines or imprisonment for publishing "false, scandalous and malicious" attacks against the government.

In 1797, George Washington was succeeded by another Federalist, John Adams, who became involved in an undeclared naval war against Napoleon's France, the Quasi-War. In an atmosphere of war hysteria, the Federalist-controlled Congress passed the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts.

In 1807, Britain introduced a series of trade restrictions to prevent American trade with France, in response to American support for Napoleon Bonaparte, with whom Britain was at war. The United States challenged these restrictions as an illegal blockade. The forced conscription of American citizens into the Royal Navy and Britain's military support for Native Americans, who opposed the expansion of the American frontier in the Northwest, further aggravated tension between the two countries.

In December 1814, officials from the two countries met in Ghent, Belgium and agreed to sign a peace treaty that resulted in recognition of the status quo ante bellum.12 However, news of the Ghent treaty did not reach the United States. United until several months later. Meanwhile, the British launched their final assault on the port cities of New Orleans and Mobile.

Between the 1820s and 1830s, after the proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine of territorial expansion towards the Pacific, thousands of American colonists settled in the Anglo-Saxon communities of Texas (then Mexican territory). At the time, the Mexican government was in dire economic straits at the end of a decade-long war of independence with Spain, and it welcomed settlers.

Of the thirty-four states of the United States in February 1861, seven southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States to form the Confederate States of America, or the South.

In July 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg, the Union defeated the Confederates in what was probably the most important battle of the war.

Entre 1865 y 1877 tiene lugar el período de la Reconstrucción, el cual se caracterizó por los intentos del gobierno de Washington de sanar las heridas de la guerra. Se modificó la constitución para otorgar libertad y derechos a los negros: A través de la Decimotercera Enmienda se prohibía la esclavitud, la Decimocuarta Enmienda extendía las protecciones legales federales a todos los ciudadanos independientemente de su raza y la Decimoquinta Enmienda abolía las restricciones raciales para votar.

In 1898, after the accidental explosion of the USS Maine in Havana Bay, of which the Spanish are accused, the Spanish-American War broke out. The Americans will not only attack Cuba, they will also send the Navy to the Philippines.

In the 1910s, the Mexican Revolution broke out. Concerned about the situation in the country, President Woodrow Wilson ordered the occupation of Veracruz in 1914, in an action that sought to provide support to Venustiano Carranza, a revolutionary close to the United States.

When World War I broke out in 1914, the majority of American citizens were opposed to the United States intervening in it.

In 1917, Germany decided to resume unrestricted submarine warfare against any ships that approached British waters, including American ships. Germany also contacted the Carranza government in Mexico through the Zimmermann Telegram, intercepted by British intelligence.

The 1920s were called the Roaring Twenties because of the economic prosperity the country was experiencing. The United States displaced Great Britain from world economic leadership.

On January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution came into effect, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within the United States and all territories subject to its jurisdiction, as well as their importation. to them.

In 1933, Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt assumes the presidency, who launches the New Deal policy with the aim of getting the country out of the crisis. This policy, accused of being socialist by the opposition, establishes unemployment benefits, the Social Security Law, the Securities and Exchange Commission and greater control over banks

The Americans retake Guam and conquer Saipan and Peleliu. With the conquest of the Mariana Islands, the Americans launch a harsh bombing campaign on the Japanese archipelago.

El 2 de agosto de 1990, Irak invade Kuwait, país aliado de los Estados Unidos. Se forma una coalición internacional amparada por la ONU y liderada por Estados Unidos la cual es trasladada a Arabia Saudí. La guerra para expulsar a las tropas iraquíes de Kuwait comenzó con un bombardeo aéreo y naval el 17 de enero de 1991, que continuó durante cinco semanas, la Operación Tormenta del Desierto.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, two of the four planes hijacked by Al-Qaeda hit the two towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the third hit the Pentagon and the fourth hit the U.S. Capitol. United States, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

The Democratic candidate Obama had to face the financial crisis of 2008, the tension with Iran, the resolution of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the problems of the environment. Also, Barack Obama had among the objectives that he relatively achieved the improvement of foreign policy with Europe and dialogue with all the governments of the world.