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XYZ Affair! A History Cartoon for School

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- Three agents picured on the right
- lady liberty to the right
- french and african american's eating together (criticism of france)
- eating frogs
- 5-headed "French mob leadership"
- Federalist approach
- the dagger portrays that war might be necessary

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- Adams sent three envoys to France to resolve naval conflicts
- French foreign minister demanded a bribe before the negotiations began
- American representatives refused

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- head of Federalists
- opposed to British alliance
- wasn't on board with helping the wealthy and Hamilton's commercial-industrial vision
- dealt with heavy political party conflicts and disagreement
- often clashed with Hamilton
- thin-skinned, tempered
- struggled reaching agreements with Pro-Hamilton cabinet
- attempted to balance relations with GB and F
- passes the Alien and Sedition Acts
this targets foreigners and                   governmental criticizers
- rose taxes to build naval defense against French (who had stolen cargo from American ships)

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Hamilton:
- Saw it as total anarchy
- Wanted to break ties with France
Jefferson:
- Spreading the doctrine of liberty
- Support their "sister republic"

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- Americans became outraged
- Federalists leaders saw a chance to retain their power by agreeing with the people
- Annulled French alliance of 1778
- Led to Quasi-War with France
- increased taxes
- Alien and Sedition Acts

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- Unofficial naval war with France
- Raided each others fleets

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- XYZ Affair
- Adams did not want to be blamed for a bad war with France
- Feared standing armies and preferred navies