1) The XYZ Affair a) John Adams appointed Charles Pickney as minister to France in 1796 b) Charles Talleyrand, the French foreign minister, refused to recognize Charles Pickney as minister to France. c) Adams then sent a commission to France.
i) Charles Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry made up this commission d) The commission’s goals were to establish a treaty to ensure peace and normalize trade. e) Charles Talleyrand sent three unidentified agents, X, Y, and Z, to the commission before any negotiations started. f) The agents told Pickney that Talleyrand would recognize Pickney if he were paid a bribe of $250,000 and France got a loan of 10 Million dollars. g) The meeting resulted in an unofficial naval war between the years of 1798 and 1800. h) Also resulted in the Alien and Sedition Acts, which targeted French and Irish immigrants and made the naturalization period longer, the president was allowed to export any immigrant deemed dangerous to the public, and also limited freedom of the press. i) The Treaty of Morfontaine restored normal relations between the U.S. and France and was signed in 1800, after Talleyrand sought to end the unofficial naval dispute without declaring war on the U.S.
2) Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
a) Made up of four laws
i) The Naturalization Act, extended the five year period an immigrant would have to be a resident of the U.S. to become a citizen, to fourteen years. ii) The Alien Act, gave authorization to the president to export any immigrant deemed harmful to society, without any hearing, or the president thought was part of a treasonable or secret ordeal. iii) The Alien Enemy Act, which allowed the president to export, arrest, imprison or banish any immigrant of the nationality of any country that the U.S. was engaged in war with.
The Essay on Charles France Lucie Carton
Plot Summary: Well I saw just over half the movie, but this is what happened. The movies goes back and forth between England and France during the brutal times of the French Revolution. I think most the action a saw took place in Paris, France. Charles Darnay, a major character in this movie is a tutor and has to travel a lot between France and Paris. Charles is convicted of spying because of ...
iv) The Sedition Act made it a misdemeanor of the highest aptitude to “(1) to oppose the execution of federal laws; (2) to prevent a federal officer from performing his or her duties; (3) to aid “any insurrection, riot, Unlawful Assembly, or combination”; or (4) to make any defamatory statement about the federal government or the president (1 Stat. 596)”. b) The validity of the Sedition Act was never tested in congress before it expired in 1801. c) When Jefferson became president he repaid all the fines collected under the act, and pardoned all convicted under the act.
3) The Louisiana Purchase
a) The purchase in 1803 between France and the United States doubled the size of the U.S. and gave the U.S. complete control over port New Orleans. b) It provided territory for the much needed western expansion. c) Jefferson sent James Monroe and Robert Livingston to France to come to an agreement with France on the territory. d) The statement of the party to France was they would ally with England if they couldn’t come on an agreement. e) Napoleon at first refused to even consider, but in 1803 when war with England was eminent he agreed. He needed the U.S. help in an upcoming war, and did not need them teaming uo with his enemies. f) The territory was purchased for $15 Million, $12 millions paid to France, but $3 million paid to U.S. citizens with claims against France. g) Purchased on April 30, signed May 2nd, and reached Washington D.C. in July