List of United States treaties: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

This is a list of treaties to which the United States has been a party or which have had direct relevance to U.S. history.

Pre-Revolutionary War treaties

Although the U.S. is not a party to these, not coming into existence till 1776, these treaties have had some relevance to later U.S. history.

• 1758 - Treaty of Easton
• 1763 - Treaty of Paris
• 1768 - Treaty of Fort Stanwix

These are treaties the U.S. made with other international states. This is mostly to distinguish them from the next category. Under the United States Constitution, treaties must be ratified by the two-thirds approval of United States Senate in order to take effect.

• 1778 - Treaty of Alliance, with France
• 1778 - Treaty of Amity and Commerce, with France
• 1778 - Act Separate and Secret Between The United States and France
• 1783 - Treaty of Paris AKA Treaty of Versailles
• 1785 - Treaty of Amity and Commerce with Prussia
• 1786 - Treaty with Morocco
• 1789 - Jay-Gardoqui Treaty with Spain, not ratified
• 1795 - Treaty with Algeria
• 1795 - Pinckney's Treaty AKA Treaty of San Lorenzo or Treaty of Madrid
• 1795 - Jay Treaty AKA Treaty of London, with Great Britain
• 1796 - Treaty with Tripoli
• 1797 - Treaty with Tunis
• 1803 - Louisiana Purchase Treaty
• 1805 - Treaty with Tripoli
• 1814 - Treaty of Ghent
• 1815 - Treaty with Algieria
• 1816 - Treaty with Algieria
• 1817 - Rush-Bagot Treaty
• 1819 - Adams-Onís Treaty with Spain
• 1824 - Treaty with Tunis
• 1828 - Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation with Brazil
• 1836 - Treaty with Morocco
• 1842 - Webster-Ashburton Treaty
• 1846 - Oregon Treaty
• 1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• 1850 - Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
• 1854 - Convention of Kanagawa
• 1864 - First Geneva Convention
• 1867 - Alaska Purchase
• 1868 - Burlingame Treaty
• 1898 - Treaty of Paris
• 1901 - Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
• 1903 - Hay-Herran Treaty
• 1903 - Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty
• 1906 - Second Geneva Convention
• 1917 - Lansing-Ishii Agreement
• 1919 - Treaty of Versailles
• 1929 - Kellogg-Briand Pact
• 1929 - Third Geneva Convention
• 1941 - Atlantic Charter
• 1945 - Potsdam Agreement
• 1945 - United Nations Charter
• 1949 - Fourth Geneva Convention
• 1949 - North Atlantic Treaty
• 1951 - Treaty of San Francisco
• 1951 - ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, United States Security Treaty)
• 1954 - Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty
• 1955 - Central Treaty Organization AKA CENTO, the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO), or the Baghdad Pact (with Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, and Iran, as well as Britain)
• 1963 - Partial Test Ban Treaty
• 1968 - Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
• 1972 - SALT I
• 1972 - Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (U.S. withdrew in 2002)
• 1973 - Paris Peace Accords
• 1979 - SALT II not ratified
• 1982 - United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea entered into force 1994, ratified 1996
• 1987 - Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
• 1991 - START I
• 1992 - International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ratified with qualifications by Senate
• 1993 - START II not ratified
• 1994 - North American Free Trade Agreement
• 1996 - Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty not ratified
• 2002 - SORT

• 1784 - Treaty of Fort Stanwix
• 1795 - Treaty of Greenville
• 1805 - Treaty of Fort Industry
• 1807 - Treaty of Detroit
• 1815 - Treaty of Springwells
• 1819 - Treaty of Saginaw
• 1826 - Treaty of Mississinwas
• 1867 - Medicine Lodge Treaty
• 1868 - Treaty of Fort Laramie