6.2

Explain how territorial expansion brought Americans into conflict with the British and with Native Americans. Describe American relations with Britain, France, and Spain. Analyze how the political parties’ debates over foreign policy further divided them.

Conflict in the Ohio Valley American Relations With Europe The Parties Debate Foreign Policy The Election of 1800

Read Section 6.2 Fill in the flow chart on page 198 in regards to foreign policy.

The Treaty of Paris gave the United States a large sum of land west of the Appalachians. However there were still manned British Forts, that supplied Miami Indians with weapons. Chief Little Turtle was their leader. Their were a couple of skirmishes that were fought and the Indians beat the small American forces. Until the Battle of Fallen Timbers, where the United States ended the Indian Confederacy.

Responding to the French Revolution the United States was divided by political parties. Democratic Republicans backed the French whereas the Federalists believed that French revolutionaries were bloody anarchists. By 1793 Britain and France were at war. Both parties in the United States declared neutrality due to the weak state of America.

The United States signed treaties with Britain and Spain to ensure peace in the states. The treaty with Britain was John Jay Treaty of 1794 (Pulling British Forts out of the west, but keeping the laws on American trading ships and paying old war debt) The treaty with Spain was the Pickney’s Treaty of 1795 (free trade for Americans along the Mississippi and New Orleans, also establish Spanish Florida’s border)

John Adams defeats Thomas Jefferson narrowly in the 1796 Presidential Election XYZ Affair-French officials sending a $250,000 bribe and humiliating terms to Adams. Alien and Sedition Acts of Authorized the President to arrest and deport immigrants who criticized the federal government. The Virginia and Kentucky resolution rendered the Sedition Acts useless and unconstitutional.

The Sedition Act and the new federal taxes had become very unpopular. Adams tried various techniques to give him the upper hand in the next election. Adams ended up losing the election by a very narrow margin to Thomas Jefferson, in 1801.