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1. Summarize the nation¶s developing foreign policy with France,
Great Britain, and Spain
2. Explain how the United States dealt with Native Americans and with
British interests west of the Appalachians.

3. Identify some of the deep divisions between Federalists and

Republicans.
 



 
( U.S. had an alliance with France created by the treaty in 1778, should
the U.S. support the French Revolution?

    
( acobins seize power in France and
declare war on Great Britain.
( America is split along party lines.
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emocratic-Republicans ( efferson)
wanted to honor the 1778 treaty and
support France.
( Federalists (Hamilton) wanted to
back Britain.
( ashington took a middle position
and issued a declaration of
neutrality.
( neutrality- A refusal to take part in
a war with other nations.
( Edmond Genet- French diplomat
who began recruiting Americans for
the war effort against Britain.
( his violated American neutrality and
was diplomatic protocol.
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( he U.S. wanted land claims in the
west and shipping rights on the
Mississippi.
( homas Pinckney- U.S. minister to
Great Britain that negotiated the
treaty with Spain.
( In Pinckney¶s reaty the U.S. got the
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( British still occupied forts in the Northwest erritory and Native
Americans would resist white settlers.


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( Native Americans in the Northwest
erritory didn¶t accept the reaty of
Paris
( he federal government sent an army in
to gain control of what would become
Ohio.
( ittle urtle- eader of the
Miami Confederacy resisting
the army and white settlers.
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( ashington appoints Anthony ayne
³Mad Anthony´ to lead federal
troops.
( ayne trained his men for a year.
( Impressed, ittle urtle wants to
make peace, the other chief disagree.
( ittle urtle was replaced and the Miami
Confederacy was defeated.
( Resistance in Ohio ended, reaty of
Greenville was signed.
( Miami Confederacy gave up
most of their lands in Ohio.
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( ohn ay- Chief justice of the Supreme
Court, was in ondon to negotiate a
treaty with Britain.
( ay¶s treaty was signed in 1794, the
British agreed to evacuate their posts
in the Northwest erritory.
( he British were still allowed to continue
their fur trade on the American side of the
U.S. Canadian border.
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( Almost all the electors from the northern states voted Adams, southern
electors voted efferson. (1796)
( sectionalism- Placing the interests of
one region over those of the nation
as a whole.


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( French government saw ay¶s reaty
as a violation of the French-American
alliance.
( French started seizing American ships
bound for Britain.
( U.S. sent three delegates to France to
meet with their foreign minister.
( Instead the French sent three low level
officials that demanded a $250,000 to
see the French foreign minister.
( Adams referred to these low level officials
as X,Y, and Z.
( XYZ Affair- A 1797 incident in which
French officials demanded a bribe from
U.S. diplomats.
( ave of anti-French feelings in U.S.
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( Federalists feared French agents were
trying to overthrow the U.S. government.
( Alien and Sedition Acts- A series of four
laws enacted in 1798 to reduce the
political power of recent immigrants to
the United States.
( he purpose was to control immigrants.
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( efferson and Madison the two main

emocratic-Republican leaders saw
the Alien and Sedition Acts as a
misuse of power by the federal
government.
( nullification- A state¶s refusal to
recognize an act of Congress it
considers unconstitutional.
( he resolutions showed the balance of
power between the states and federal
government was still a controversial issue.

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( ashington died of a sever cold on

ecember 14, 1799.
( His death was instrumental in
improving relations between France and
the U.S. as Napoleon issued ten days
of mourning.