Important Treaties in US History

Question 1

Treaty of Paris no. 1 (1763)

Answer 1

ended the French and Indian War between England and France

Question 2

Treaty of Paris no. 2 (1783)

Answer 2

ended the American Revolution with England

Question 3

Pinckney’s Treaty (1795)

Answer 3

Spain allowed Americans to travel freely along the Mississippi River and settled boundary disputes with the U.S. and Spain

Question 4

Treaty of Greenville (1795)

Answer 4

ended the Battle of Fallen Timbers;12 Indian tribes agreed to give up their land of present-day Ohio and Indiana to the U.S.

Question 5

Louisiana Purchase (1803)

Answer 5

America acquired Louisiana territory from France; doubled the size of the U.S.

Question 6

Treaty of Ghent (1814)

Answer 6

ended the War of 1812 with England

Question 7

Adams-Onis Treaty (1819)

Answer 7

Spain gave Florida to the United States

Question 8

Oregon Treaty (1846)

Answer 8

divided Oregon Country between the United States and Canada

Question 9

Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo (1848)

Answer 9

ended the war with Mexico; U.S. acquired CA, NV, UT, NM, most of AZ, CO, and other land.

Question 10

Treaty of Paris no. 3 (1898)

Answer 10

ended Spanish-American War; Cuban independence; U.S. acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

Question 11

Platt Amendment (1902)

Answer 11

made Cuba a U.S. protectorate

Question 12

Hay-Bunau-Varilla (1903)

Answer 12

Panama became independent; U.S. acquired control over canal zone, and can intervene.

Question 13

Treaty of Versailles (1918)

Answer 13

ended WWI; German reparations and war-guilt clause; Leage of Nations created, but the U.S. does not sign on.

Question 14

Potsdam Treaty (1945)

Answer 14

ended WWII in Europe; carved up and disarmed Germany; eliminated Nazis; punished war criminals

Question 15

GATT (1948-1995)

Answer 15

(General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)lowered barriers to international trade; 1994, created World Trade Organization

Question 16

NATO (1949)

Answer 16

(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)mutual defense pact among U.S., Canada, and ten Western European allies

Question 17

Korean War settlement (1953)

Answer 17

stalemate–Korea remained split with a demilitarized zone between the North and South

Question 18

Jay’s Treaty (1794)

Answer 18

Britian agreed to leave the forts they occupied on the U.S. frontier, re-established good US/ England relations.

Question 19

Geneva Accords (1954)

Answer 19

temporarily divided Vietnam into communist North and anticommunist South

Question 20

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963)

Answer 20

barred atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. JFK

Question 21

SALT I (1972) and SALT II (1979)

Answer 21

SALT I and SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)

Question 22

Vietnam War agreement (1973)

Answer 22

ended American involvement; country remained divided with North Vietnamese troops in the South

Question 23

Camp David Accords (1978)

Answer 23

President Carter helped negotiate Middle East peace agreements between Jordan and Egypt and Israel

Question 24

INF Treaty (1987)

Answer 24

(Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty eliminated two classes of weapons; allowed inspection of military installations. REAGAN

Question 25

START I (1991) and START II (1993)

Answer 25

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty I & II ; continued nuclear arms reduction up to 75 percent

Question 26

NAFTA (1993)

Answer 26

(North American Free Trade Agreement) U.S., Canada, and Mexico drop all trade barriers

Question 27

Kyoto Accords (1997)

Answer 27

internation climate treaty; 2001, U.S. doesn’t sign