Foreign Affairs Trouble the Nation

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Foreign Affairs Trouble the Nation

• Section 62
• pp. 190-196

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Preview Questions

• What were Americas earliest foreign policy
  problems?
• How did U.S. expansion affect Native Americans?
• What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?

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I. U.S. Response to Events in Europe

• Problems with France
• 1789 French Revolution
• Near war with Britain
• U.S. has treaty with France honor it?
• Federalists say no
• Dem-Reps say yes
• Washington decides on neutrality

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I. U.S. Response to Events in Europe

• Edmond Genet
• French diplomat sent to U.S.
• Ignored policy of neutrality
• Negotiations with Spain
• Pinckneys Treaty
• Spain gives up land east of Mississippi River
• Spain allows Americans to use Mississippi River

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II. Native American Relations

• Pioneers Meet Resistance
• British forts
• Native Americans
• Jays Treaty
• British evacuate forts in NW Territory
• Allowed to keep fur trade

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III. Adams Provokes Criticism

• Election of 1796
• Adams wins Pres, TJ wins VP
• Shows growing sectionalism

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III. Adams Provokes Criticism

• The XYZ Affair
• French demand bribe from Americans
• Americans become very anti-French
• Alien and Sedition Acts
• Allowed president to deport any threat
• Fines for negative statements about govt
• Opposed by Dem-Reps

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III. Adams Provokes Criticism

• Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
• Objection to Alien and Sedition Acts
• States that states have the power to judge the
  constitutionality of acts of Congress
• Kentucky declared it could nullify objectionable
  federal laws
• Becomes a debate over states rights
• Opposed by Federalists