1. Foreign Affairs Trouble the Nation
Section 6*2 pp
October 5, 2009

2. Preview Questions
What were America’s earliest foreign policy problems?
How did U.S. expansion affect Native Americans?
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?

3. 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

4. I. U.S. Response to Events in Europe
Edmond Genet
French diplomat sent to U.S.
Ignored policy of neutrality
Negotiations with Spain
Pinckney’s Treaty
Spain gives up land east of Mississippi River
Spain allows Americans to use Mississippi River

5. II. Native American Relations
Pioneers meet resistance
British forts
Native Americans
Jay’s Treaty
British evacuate forts in NW Territory
Allowed to keep fur trade

6. III. Adams Provokes Criticism
Election of 1796:
Adams wins Pres, TJ wins VP
Shows growing sectionalism

8. 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 gov’t

9. 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
Question of states’ rights