TERMS I
XYZ Affair
A diplomatic scandal where French agents, publicly referred to as X, Y and Z, demanded major concessions from the United States as a condition for continuing bilateral peace negotiations.
Appointed commissioner to France to negotiate this country’s assistance with independence. Played a key role in obtaining the military supplies that made possible the victory at Saratoga in October 1777.
Silas Dean
Self-imposed blockade of the nation’s commerce
Embargo Act of 1807
Negotiated the demilitarization and joint Anglo-American control of any canals across the Central American isthmus.
Secretary of State John Clayton and the British minister to the US, Henry Lytton Bulwer.
Sent to Mexico by President Polk to negotiate a border on the Rio Grande and relinquish California for $30 million.
John Slidell
First country to recognize the U.S.A.
Morocco
Condemned protective tariffs and promoted the idea of nullification as a protection against an oppressive central government
John Calhoun
USS Chesapeake Affair
When in international waters, British ship, Leopard opened fire and took four deserters and Americans who escaped British impressments.
Invaded California and established there an independent republic.
John C. Fremont
Battle of Gonzalez, 1835
Opening salvo of Texas Revolution
Granted the astonishingly liberal boundaries – from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River bounded by Florida and Canada
The Treaty of Paris (1783)
Caron de Beaumarchais
An early French supporter of American independence. Lobbied the French government on behalf of the American rebels during the American War of Independence. Oversaw covert aid from the French and Spanish governments to supply arms and financial assistance to the rebels in the years before France's formal entry into the war in 1778.
OR
author of two outstanding comedies of intrigue The Barber of Seville, and The Marriage of Figaro.
In 1809 replaced the Embargo Act. US to trade with everyone except Britain and France.
Non-intercourse Act
After his mission to negotiate a border settlement during the Mexican-American war failed, he was recalled but decided to stay in Mexico and keep on negotiating without authority.
Nicholas Trist
A treaty which ended the Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed on 2 February 1848
When Manifest Destiny was realized, it was replaced by this movement.
the Young America Movement
Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes
French minister working secretly with Silas Dean, architect of French foreign policy toward the American Revolution
Southerners and Westerners who supported going to war with Great Britain were labeled ..... . –
“war hawks”
American general in charge of forces that occupied Mexico City
General Winfield Scott
Marked the close of first phase of struggle between weak Spain in boundary dispute,-secured southern border with Spanish Florida and navigation rights in the Mississippi.
Pinckney’s Treaty of 1795
A treaty that resolved several Northeastern border issues between the United States and the British North American colonies.
In 1838 border war broke out over the land between American and Canadian farmers.
Webster-Ashburton treaty 1842
In 1793, issued a “Proclamation of Neutrality,” to adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers: France and Great Britain.
George Washington
Proposal to opened all commerce if British repeal orders in council and French stop seizing ships. Whoever comes forward first.
Macon’s Bill # 2
Attempt to gain control of Nicaragua
Invaded Nicaragua, became president of the Republic of Nicaragua in 1856 and ruled until 1857, when he was defeated by a coalition of Central American armies. He was later executed.
William Walker
In 1842, acting on rumors of war with Mexico, sailed into Monterrey, captured the local authorities, raised American flag. Apologized when he learned there was no war.
Thomas ap Catesby Jones