The Trent Affair, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair.
...convince the British that the Confederacy was a viable nation, worthy of diplomatic recognition and military aid.
Why the Pinckney's Treaty was important to the US is because it provided for mutual recognition of the border between US territory and spanish colonies.
The Trent Affair was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. On November 8, 1861 the USS San Jacinto, commanded by CaptainCharles Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packeTrent and removed two Confederate diplomats,James Mason and John Slidell. The envoys were bound for Great Britain and France in order to press the Confederacy's case for diplomatic recognition by Europe. The Trent Affair was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War. On November 8, 1861 the USS San Jacinto, commanded by CaptainCharles Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packeTrent and removed two Confederate diplomats,James Mason and John Slidell. The envoys were bound for Great Britain and France in order to press the Confederacy's case for diplomatic recognition by Europe.
These were the two biggest border-states - that is, slave-states of the Upper South, that had stayed loyal to the Union. With these states, Lincoln had to be especially diplomatic, to persuade them not to go Confederate.
Usually, yes.
France was the first nation to grant diplomatic recognition to the new country of the United States. Russia was the second.
The Netherlands
France was the first country to grant diplomatic recognition to the new American state. France was an ally of the U.S. in the American Revolutionary War.
The American president acts as a leader for
Diplomatic recognition is the political equivalent to being accepted within the world as a nation. The United States for example was not recognized by England after winning the Revolutionary war. Israel was not recognized by anyone until the United States sent diplomats thereby presenting recognition to the world that Israel was a nation.
implied power
France
Yes.
withdraw of recognition
The Trent Affair, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair.
forestalling foreign powers from granting diplomatic recognition to the confederacy