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Adams Presidency

Bucket Notes. Adams Presidency. American neutrality and Jay’s Treaty angered the French and reacted by snubbing a U.S. diplomat and attacking American merchant ships. French Anger.

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Adams Presidency

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  1. Bucket Notes Adams Presidency

  2. American neutrality and Jay’s Treaty angered the French and reacted by snubbing a U.S. diplomat and attacking American merchant ships. French Anger

  3. XYZ Affair—American representatives to France were asked to pay a bribe to see French government officials; the info leaked in America leading to outrage against France XYZ Affair

  4. War fever caused Congress to increase the size of the army and navy and create a separate department of the navy War Fever

  5. The U.S. fought an undeclared naval war with France, though neither side pushed for a full war; by 1800 Napoleon came to power and agreed to stop seizing American ships Quasi-War

  6. Federalists feared the Republicans were getting too much support from immigrants and pushed for laws to hurt them. The Alien Act said that aliens had to live in the U.S. 14 years (instead of 5) to be a citizen, and gave the President the power to deport or imprison aliens he considered dangerous Alien and Sedition Acts

  7. The Sedition Act made it a crime to write or say anything insulting or false about the government or its officials. Republicans editors and printers became the main target of this law Alien and Sedition Acts

  8. Republicans Thomas Jefferson and James Madison wrote the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, passed in those states, that attacked the Alien and Sedition Acts. They argued the laws were unconstitutional and that states had the right to declare laws passed by Congress unconstitutional and throw them out. This was called “nullification” Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

  9. Both the Alien and Sedition Acts expired by 1802, but the idea of nullification sparked another heated debate about the power of the states versus the federal government; states’ rights became a rallying cry for those defending slavery in the years to come Nullification—state versus federal power

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