The Effects Of The XYZ Affair

In the late 1700's, John Adams was President. Adams was a member of the Federalist Party. The Federalists were in control of the Congress. Adams and other Federalists were Pro-British and the Republican Party was Pro-French. Thomas Jefferson led the Republicans. Federalists were worried that the influx of French into the country

Directory’s foreign minister, Prince Talleyrand, demanded a loan for France and a Bribe for French officials before they would deal with Adams commissioners. This led to the undeclared war with France from 1798-1800. Adams cut off trade with France and captured French ships. American army did well and got 85 prizes of armed merchantmen and vessels of the French navy. U. S gets closer to Britain put still remains the “peace” see bribe. France didn’t need another war so he said that the representatives would be received with respect by Napoleon. Napoleon had other plans to take of Europe so he made the “convention of 1800s” which said the Franco-American alliance was over (that if either one of them was attacked by Britain, the other will fight for them) and America had to pay for French shippers.

The circumstances behind the Trent Affair was an international political incident that occurred when it was the American Civil War. When it was November 8th, 1861, the USS San Jacinto, was commanded by the Union Captain named Charles Wilkes, was interrupted by the British mail packet RMS Trent and was removed, as contraband of war, there was two Confederate diplomats, those people were James Mason and John Slidell. The legations were bound for France and Britain to press the Confederacy’s case for diplomatic recognition. It was also to lobby for possible financial and military support, and it was called the cotton diplomacy. In the United States, the public reaction was to celebrate the capture and gather against Britain’s threatening war. In Confederate States, the

Many American originally supported the French Revolution as an extension of the American Revolution. Men wore cockades as an outward demonstration of their support of the French Republic. French victories and holidays were celebrated, and toasts to the French were given at parties. Good feelings towards the French disappeared after the XYZ Affair. The French were angry over American’s creating Jay’s Treaty, which they correctly saw as favoring the British. When American ambassadors arrived in France, the French foreign minister sent three agents to bribe the ambassadors into making a treaty that favored France instead of England. Americans were angered over this slight because it showed how little they mattered in international politics; other countries didn’t take the United States seriously because of the extreme partisan division in American politics. After the XYZ Affair, Americans shifted towards a derogatory view of France and became determined to show the French that the United States was not a country divided by political parties.

Back in the 1700’s the British Parliament had to start taxing the colonies to pay for war debt from the treaty of paris, this made the colonists furious, for they did not know why they had to pay, they thought this was underhanded, this caused breakout wars between Britain and America.

President John Adams had sent several delegates, one of them being John Martial, to France to help sort out the issues between France and the US, such as the United States not honoring the Franco-American Treaty, formed back during the American Revolution, when France had its revolution, by meeting with minister Talleyrand of France. Three of Talleyrand’s men met with the delegates and told them Talleyrand refused to meet unless a large amount of money was payed. The delegates returned home and informed President Adams, who was outraged. The name of the Affair comes from the substituting of the three French men’s’ names with X, Y, and Z in a Congress report.

Ch.1: With the Treaty of Paris, the British set up military posts running from the Northern end of Lake Champlain, to Niagara, Detroit, and Michigan Peninsula. The British took the posts because the US failed to live up the treaty terms. In 1784, the Spain closed the lower Mississippi River to the American commerce, and then orders a tariff on US goods. The U.S. made negotiation for commercial treaties and did trade directly with Europe. The Britain excluded the U.S from the imperial trade and received a large quantity of cheap goods. The U.S in the time of depression and the balance of trade made some states print more money between 1785 and 1786. Other states also tried imposing taxes and restricting new issues of money.

When James Madison, the president of the United States began drafting a war message in late May 1812, claiming the hostility Great Britain had showed towards the United States he didn’t fail to mention the hand France had to play in the game of hostility. “He therefore attached one more paragraph to the message, noting that France had often been as guilty of the same infractions of American neutral rights as Great Britain.” France had decided that after Chief Justice John Jay’s treaty, or “Jay’s treaty” had passed in 1796 that it could too retort to the same violations of neutrals rights that Great Britain had grown accustomed to. “That Attitude in fact governed much French policy toward the United States for the subsequent decade and beyond…” This led to the XYZ affair. The United States sent diplomats to ensure peace between the two nations, however French negotiators in turn made outrageous demands that shocked the diplomats, the demands were dropped but France did not agree to end the seizures of American ships.

The Jay Treaty was a treaty in 1795 between the United States and Great Britain that prevented war, and resolved issues between the US and Great Britain since the 1783 Treaty of Paris.By the terms of the Jay treaty the United States gained control of Northwest fort and trading rights with India and the British West Indies(although only with ships of seventy tons or less, a severely limiting condition). The US also agreed to pay prewar debts. It also did not compensate the southerners for slaves carried off during the revolutionary war.All in all, the Jay Treaty gained little for the United States, but made peace between Great Britain and the US. Washington and the federalists both deployed their own techniques, and also worked together to make

John Adams followed George Washington as the second President of the United States during the years 1797-1801. During his term in office, the Quasi War occurred. This was a naval war fought between the United States and France which lasted two years from 1788-1800. This undeclared war was historically significant because Adams led from a position of peacemaker.

The British began capturing American ships that traded with French also British stopped American merchant ships and forced their crew into the British navy. For Jay’s Treaty, the British agreed to withdraw from American soil, to pay damaged ships they had seized, and allow some American ships to trade with British colonies in the Caribbeans. Jay’s treaty made Spanish leaders realize that the United States and Great Britain could work together against the Spanish Empire in North America. In 1795, Pinckney’s Treaty gave Americans free navigation of the Mississippi River and the right to trade at New

Before the War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars, Britain controlled waters very close to America’s shoreline. Britain protected Americas ships heading to Europe. When the Napoleonic Wars broke out, Britain began to impress American sailors into their Navy to fight in the Napoleonic Wars. They als along with France created Laws that interfered with America's trade with Europe. They were forced to stop at Britain to go to France and forced to stop at France to go to Britain.

The XYZ affair was basically an incident that almost led to a full out war occurring between France and the United States. This scandal affected the opinion of many U.S citizens and led to the creation of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1789. Ultimately, this affair caused a small naval war between the two countries, but eventually they negotiated and officially ended their conflict in 1800. To begin with, the affair took place during the war between England and France. The French thought of the U.S to be hostile after they signed the Jay’s Treaty of 1794, which basically ended the friction between the U.S and England.

The Trent Affair was an event which occurred during the Civil War, that threatened a war with Britain as well as the South. The Americans captured two Confederate diplomats from a British ship. The UK protested quite a bit until the diplomats were released. In 1861, the Union intercepted a letter that stated the Confederacy was sending two diplomats to France to negotiate financial and military aid in the Civil War. They were considered contraband of war, and were removed from the ship. Before they were released, British troops in Canada and the Atlantic increased, as did the threat of war. Abraham Lincoln didn’t want to there to be war between the European nation and the South, so he ordered the release of the men. The diplomats, however,

Madison and Jefferson then seized on widespread public sympathy for France's expansive, revolutionary exploits to promote republican sentiment in the United States. Madison bitterly opposed Jay's Treaty, feeling that it made the United States dependent on England and in fact tied America to the corrupt power-politics diplomacy of the Old World. With the final ratification of Jay's Treaty, Madison felt that a commercial junta that cared very little for the republican character of the nation had gained control. The war-like attitude toward France of President John Adams,' administration alarmed Madison. The XYZ AFFAIR brought the United States and France close to war. During the continiuous turmoil in the United States, the