I need to write a 2 pragraph essay on Foreign policy for andrew johnson. I need helping righting it.?

Question

what did Andrew Johnson do to improve our relations with other countries. I also need a minimum of 10 senstences. So I do I write my essay. I am only in 8 grade.

Answer 1

Foreign Policy

Alaska: Secretary of State William Seward bought Alaska from the Russians for 7.2 million dollars. (1868)

Driving the French from Mexico: Seward sent 50,000 American soldiers to depose Napoleon's puppet ruler, Archduke Maximilian


Foreign policy

Andrew Johnson as a younger man.Johnson forced the French out of Mexico by sending a combat army to the border and issuing an ultimatum. The French withdrew in 1867, and their puppet government quickly collapsed. Secretary of State Seward negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia on April 9, 1867 for $7.2 Million. Critics sneered at "Seward's Folly" and "Seward's Icebox" and "Icebergia." Seward also negotiated to purchase the Danish West Indies, but the Senate refused to approve the purchase in 1867 (it eventually took place in 1917). The Senate likewise rejected Seward's arrangement with Britain to arbitrate the Alabama Claims.

The U.S. experienced tense relations with Britain and its colonial government in Canada in the aftermath of the war. Lingering resentment over a perception of British sympathy towards the Confederacy resulted in Johnson initially turning a blind eye towards a series of armed incursions by Irish-American civil war veterans into British territory in Canada, named the Fenian Raids. Eventually Johnson ordered the Fenians disarmed and barred from crossing the border, but his initially hesitant reaction to the crisis helped motivate the movement toward Canadian Confederation.