Proclamation of Neutrality

Examples of Proclamation of Neutrality in the following topics:

• Citizen Gênet Affair

  • The Citizen Genêt Affair threatened American neutrality during the French Revolutionary Wars.
  • After raising this militia, Genêt traveled to Philadelphia to meet Washington and formally request an official suspension of Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality.
  • Angered by Genêt's audacity in recruiting privateers in blatant violation of American neutrality, Washington confronted Genêt in the presidential mansion in Philadelphia.
  • The British captured hundreds of American ships and their cargoes, increasing the possibility of war between the two countries.
  • Edmond-Charles Genêt came dangerously close to violating President Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality.

• The Quasi-War

  • To that end, Washington issued a Proclamation of Neutrality in 1795, which declared the United States free from any military obligation to European nations and stipulated that the United States would continue to trade with both France and Britain.
  • The Proclamation of Neutrality and Jay's Treaty both outraged France, and the French navy began seizing American ships and harassing American traders in Caribbean and European ports.
  • The French seized 316 American merchant ships by June of 1797, and the French Republic refused to receive the new U.S. minister Charles Pinckney when he arrived in Paris in December of 1796.
  • In April of 1798, President Adams informed Congress of how France had demanded bribes from the United States before it would discuss any peace settlement.
  • Instead, the Quasi-War began in July of 1798.

• Emancipation

  • The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by U.S.
  • The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves, with nearly all of the rest of the 3.1 million freed as Union armies advanced.
  • On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation that he would order the emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863.
  • The Proclamation made abolition a central goal of the war, outraged white Southerners who foresaw in the Proclamation the potential for race wars, angered some Northern Democrats, energized antislavery forces, and weakened resolve among Europeans who wanted to intervene to aid the Confederacy.
  • Hundreds of thousands of German Americans volunteered to fight for the Union.

• Neutralization Reaction

  • Neutralization reactions are used to inactivate viruses and evaluate neutralizing antibodies.
  • A subset of these antibodies can block viral infection by a process called neutralization.
  • Neutralizing antibodies have shown potential in the treatment of retroviral infections.
  • Another disease which has been linked to the production of neutralizing antibodies is multiple sclerosis.
  • In diagnostic immunology and virology laboratories, the evaluation of neutralizing antibodies, which destroy the infectivity of viruses, can be measured by the neutralization method.

• The First Emancipation

  • Lord Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
  • In November 1775 Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia, issued a controversial proclamation, later known as Lord Dunmore's Proclamation.
  • Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
  • The 1776 Declaration of Independence refers obliquely to the Proclamation by citing, as one of its grievances, that King George III had "excited domestic Insurrections among us."
  • The Earl of Dunmore issued a proclamation offering freedom to all slaves who would leave their masters and fight on behalf of Britain during the Revolutionary War.

• Pursuing Both War and Peace

  • The petition was rejected, and in August 1775, A Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition (or the Proclamation of Rebellion) formally declared that the colonies were in rebellion.
  • The Proclamation of Rebellion was written before the Olive Branch Petition reached the British.
  • In August 1775, upon learning of the Battle of Bunker Hill, King George III issued a Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition.
  • On October 26, 1775, King George III expanded on the Proclamation of Rebellion in his Speech from the Throne at the opening of Parliament.
  • The Proclamation of Rebellion was King George III's response to the Olive Branch Petition.

• The Aftermath of the War

  • Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation enabled blacks to join the Union Army, giving the Union an advantage, and helped end the Civil War.
  • Although Lincoln's approach to emancipation was slow, the Emancipation Proclamation was an effective use of the President's war powers.
  • The Emancipation Proclamation enabled African-Americans, both free blacks and escaped slaves, to join the Union Army.
  • They were nearly all freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
  • The full restoration of the Union was the work of a highly contentious postwar era known as Reconstruction.

• The War and Its Consequences

  • Following the peace treaty, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763 on October 7.
  • The proclamation outlined the division and administration of the newly conquered territory.
  • The proclamation created a boundary line (often called the proclamation line) between the British colonies on the Atlantic coast and American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • The proclamation outlawed private purchase of American Indian land, which had often created problems in the past; instead, all future land purchases were to be made by Crown officials "at some public Meeting or Assembly of the said Indians."
  • Indeed, the Royal Proclamation itself called for lands to be granted to British soldiers who had served in the Seven Years' War.

• French-British Rivalry in the Ohio Country

  • The Ohio Country (sometimes called the Ohio Territory or Ohio Valley by the French) was the name used in the 18th century for the regions of North America west of the Appalachian Mountains and in the region of the upper Ohio River south of Lake Erie.
  • The Delawares were migrating because of the expansion of European colonial settlement in eastern Pennsylvania.
  • After initially remaining neutral, the Ohio Country Indians largely sided with the French.
  • In his Royal Proclamation of 1763, King George III placed Ohio Country in the vast Indian Reserve stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River and from Florida to Newfoundland.
  • Despite its acquisition by Great Britain, the area remained officially closed to white settlement by the Proclamation of 1763, which arose in part of the British desire to regain peaceful relations with the Shawnee and other tribes in the region.

• The French and Indian War

  • After initially remaining neutral, the Ohio Country Indians and most of the northern tribes largely sided with the French, who were their primary trading partner and supplier of arms.
  • Following the peace treaty, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763 outlining the division and administration of the newly conquered territory.
  • To some extent, this proclamation continues to govern relations between the government of modern Canada and the First Nations.
  • In his proclamation, George III placed Ohio Country in the vast Indian Reserve stretching from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River and from Florida to Newfoundland.
  • Despite its acquisition by Great Britain, the area remained officially closed to white settlement—at least for the time being—by the Proclamation of 1763, which arose from the British desire to regain peaceful relations with the Shawnee and other tribes in the region.