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American Foreign Policy Pre-1898

• David A. Copeland, Fighting for a Continent:
        Newspaper Coverage of the English and French War For Control of North America, 1754-1760


• The French and Indian Wars


• The French and Indian War's Impact on America


• The Seven Years War


• Governor Glen, The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England, 1761


• The Boston Tea Party


• Common Sense by Thomas Paine, February 14, 1776


• Treaty with the Delawares, 1778


• Jefferson's attitude towards the indigenous peoples


• The Federalist Papers, Numbers 1-85


• Mr. Charles Pinckney's speech, in answer to Mr. Jay, secretary for foreign affairs, on the question of a treaty with Spain, delivered in Congress, August 16, 1786.


• The Constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy


• Richard Price: The Discourse on the Love of Country, 1789


• Journal of William Maclay, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-1791, CHAPTER II. THE FIRST TARIFF DEBATE.


• Richard Battin, "Early America's Bloodiest Battle,"  1791, The Battle at Fort Wayne


• The Jay Treaty, 1794


• "Mad Anthony" Wayne at Fallen Timbers, 1794, General Wayne's Decisive Victory In the Northwest Territory Ends the Young Nation's Crisis of Authority By Richard Battin


• John Adams, XYZ Affair, Philadelphia, PA, 1797-05-16


• John Adams - Thoughts on Government


• "Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798 - 1993," by Ellen C. Collier, Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division, Washington DC: Congressional Research Service -- Library of Congress -- October 7, 1993


• The War of 1812


• The War of 1812-1814


• Key Events & Causes: War of 1812


• Internet Public Library, James Madison


• John Quincy Adams's Warning Against Searching for "Monsters to Destroy," 1821


• British Foreign Secretary George Canning's Overture for a Joint Declaration with the United States on the Spanish Colonies in America, 1823


• John Quincy Adams's Account of the Cabinet Meeting of November 7, 1823


• Geronimo, His Own Story


• Removal of the Cherokees to Oklahoma


• The Removal Act, May 28, 1830


• President Andrew Jackson's Case for the Removal Act, First Annual Message to Congress, 8 December 1830


• Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia, 1831


• Black Hawk's Surrender Speech, 1832


• Accounts of the "Cherokee Trail of Tears"With reference to "Princess Otahki" From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sunday, January 18, 1970, By Elizabeth Mulligan


• The Trail of Tears Private John G. Burnett, Captain Abraham McClellan's Company, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry, Cherokee Indian Removal, 1838-39.


• The Trail of Tears


• Edward P. Crapol, "John Tyler and the Pursuit of National Destiny," Journal of the Early American Republic, Vol. 17, no.3 (October 1997)


• PBS Site on the US-Mexican War


• Polk's War Message, 1846


• The Wilmot Proviso, 1846


• Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America


• Internet Public Library, Millard Fillmore


• Franklin Pierce, Inaugural Address, Friday, March 4, 1853


• Internet Public Library, Franklin Pierce


• Indian Fight in Texas, The New-Orleans Picayune, October 1854


• James Buchanan, Inaugural Address, Wednesday, March 4, 1857


• Internet Public Library, James Buchanan


• REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT BY THE INDIAN PEACE COMMISSION, JANUARY 7, 1868.


• 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act


• Theodore Roosevelt, "The Duties of American Citizenship," January 26, 1883


• Andrew Carnegie: The Gospel of Wealth, 1889


• Alfred Mahan on Sea Power, 1890


• Josiah Strong on Anglo-Saxon Predominance, 1891


• 1898-1998, Centennial of the Spanish-American War