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The Convention of 1800, also known as the Treaty of Mortefontaine (French: Traité de Mortefontaine), was signed on September 30, 1800, by the United States and France.The difference in name was due to congressional sensitivity at entering into treaties, due to disputes over the 1778 treaties of Alliance and Commerce between France and the U.S.
From 1798 to 1800, France and the U.S. waged an undeclared war at sea, the so-called Quasi-War, which was ended by the Convention of 1800 or Treaty of Mortefontaine. With an already hostile British Canada to the north, the U.S. wanted to avoid an aggressive and powerful France replacing Spain in the south.
Convention with the Creeks 7 Stat. 96: 60 Creek: 1805 November 16 Treaty of Mount Dexter: Treaty with the Choctaw 7 Stat. 98: 61, 62 Choctaw: 1805 December 30 Treaty of Vincennes: Treaty with the Piankashaw 7 Stat. 100: 63 Piankeshaw: 1806 January 7 Treaty of Washington Convention with the Cherokee 7 Stat. 101: 64, 65 Cherokee: 1807 March 3 Act ...
September 30: Treaty of Mortefontaine signed. January 7 – The Virginia General Assembly adopts the Report of 1800, a resolution drafted by James Madison arguing for the sovereignty of the individual states under the United States Constitution and against the Alien and Sedition Acts.
The Château de Mortefontaine was the site of the signing of the Convention of 1800 (also known as the Treaty of Mortefontaine), a treaty of friendship between France and the United States of America. The preliminaries of the 1802 Peace of Amiens were also negotiated at the château. [2]
Read below for the full text of Lincoln's address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition ...
Mortefontaine is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: Mortefontaine, Aisne , in the Aisne département Mortefontaine, Oise , in the Oise département
This is the version of the speech as it is widely known today and was reconstructed based on the recollections of elderly witnesses many decades later. A scholarly debate persists among colonial historians as to what extent Wirt or others invented parts of the speech including its famous closing words.