Important Treaties in US History

Question 1

Treaty of Paris no. 1

Answer 1

(1763) ended the French and Indian War between England and France

Question 2

Treaty of Paris no. 2

Answer 2

(1783) ended the American Revolution with England

Question 3

Pinckney’s Treaty

Answer 3

(1795) 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

Answer 4

(1795) 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

Answer 5

(1803) America acquired Louisiana territory from France; doubled the size of the U.S.

Question 6

Treaty of Ghent

Answer 6

(1814) ended the War of 1812 with England

Question 7

Adams-Onis Treaty

Answer 7

(1819) Spain gave Florida to the United States

Question 8

Oregon Treaty

Answer 8

(1846) divided Oregon Country between the United States and Canada

Question 9

Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo

Answer 9

(1848) ended the war with Mexico; U.S. acquired the Mexican Cession

Question 10

Treaty of Paris no. 3

Answer 10

(1898) ended Spanish-American War; Cuban independence;U.S. acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philipines

Question 11

Platt Amendment

Answer 11

(1902) made Cuba a U.S. protectorate

Question 12

Hay-Bunau-Varilla

Answer 12

(1903) Panama became independent; U.S. acquired control over canal zone, and can intervene..

Question 13

Treaty of Verailles

Answer 13

(1918) ended WWI; German reparations and war-guilt clause; Leage of Nations created, but the U.S. does not sign on.

Question 14

Potsdam Treaty

Answer 14

(1945) ended WWII in Europe; carved up and disarmed Germany; eliminated Nazis; punished war criminals

Question 15

GATT

Answer 15

(General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) (1948-1995) lowered barriers to international trade; 1994, created World Trade Organization

Question 16

NATO

Answer 16

(North Atlantic Treaty Organization) (1949) mutual defense pact among U.S., Canada, and ten Western European allies

Question 17

Korean War settlement

Answer 17

(1953) stalemate–Korea remained split with a demilitarized zone between the North and South

Question 18

Jay’s Treaty

Answer 18

(1794) Britian agreed to leave the forts they occupied on the U.S. frontier

Question 19

Geneva Accords

Answer 19

(1954) temporarily divided Vietnam into communist North and anticommunist South

Question 20

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Answer 20

(1963) barred atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons

Question 21

SALT I and SALT II

Answer 21

SALT I (1972) and SALT II (1979) (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)

Question 22

Vietnam War agreement

Answer 22

(1973) ended American involvement; country remained divided with North Vietnamese troops in the South

Question 23

Camp David Accords

Answer 23

(1978) President Carter helped negotiate Middle East peace agreements between Jordan and Egypt and Israel

Question 24

INF

Answer 24

(Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty (1987) eliminated two classes of weapons;allowed inspection of military installations

Question 25

START I and START II

Answer 25

START I (1991) and START II (1993)

Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty I & II

continued nuclear arms reduction up to 75 percent

Question 26

NAFTA

Answer 26

(North American Free Trade Agreement) (1993) U.S., Canada, and Mexico drop all trade barriers

Question 27

Kyoto Accords

Answer 27

(1997) internation climate treaty; 2001, U.S. doesn’t sign