Caleb Cushing
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Caleb Cushing was an American Democratic politician and diplomat who served as a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts and the 23rd United States Attorney General under Presid
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Share of the Great European American Emigration Land Company, issued 2. October 1868, signed by president Caleb Cushing.
Cushing's Chief Justice nomination
Treaty of Wanghia
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The Treaty of Wanghia; was the first of the unequal treaties imposed by the United States on the Qing dynasty. By the terms of the diplomatic agreement, the United States received the same privileges
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…American sphere would fulfill "the great destiny reserved for this exemplar American Republic." Cushing secured the first American treaty with China, the Treaty of Wangxia of 1844; it gave American merchants trading rights in five Chinese ports. After the Civil War, Cushing negotiated a treaty with Colombia to give the…
Façade of the Kun Iam Temple, where the treaty was signed.