6.2: Foreign Affairs Trouble the Nation

MATES US History 1, Holland 2024

What decision did Washington make when deciding whether to aid in the French Revolution?

issued declaration of neutrality

Edmont Genet

French diplomat that tried to recruit American support

Thomas Pinckney

• U.S. minister to Great Britain (handled British/American relations)

• met with Spain to negotiate land boundaries and trade routes → opened up the Mississippi

  • Pinckney’s Treaty // Treaty of San Lorenzo

Little Turtle

chief of the Miami Ohio Tribe; won 2 major battles against the U.S.

Battle of Fallen Timbers (not an underlined term)

Miami Confederacy (Indians) defeated and signed treaty

John Jay

chief justice of Supreme Court; Jay’s Treaty (1794): British agree to evacuate forts

sectionalism

placing the interests of one’s region above the nation’s

XYZ Affair (1797)

3 low-level French officials demanded a bribe of $250,000 from U.S. diplomats

Aftermath of XYZ Affair

• anti-French feelings spread

• Congress creates a Navy Department and fights an unofficial war for 2 years

Alien and Sedition Acts

Federalists pass to reduce power of immigrant politicians (who were mostly democratic-republicans!)

• raised resident requirements to become a citizen

• allowed President to deport any alien deemed undesirable

• set fines and jail terms of interference/speaking out against government

  • unconstitutional