MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR
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Detailed explanation-1: -President John Adams dispatched three U.S. envoys to restore harmony between the United States and France-Elbridge Gerry, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and John Marshall.
Detailed explanation-2: -In response to the diplomatic overtures he made to William Vans Murray in The Hague, President Adams sent negotiators to France in 1799 who eventually negotiated an end to hostilities with the Convention of 1800 (whose negotiations were managed in part by Marshall, then Secretary of State) in September 1800.
Detailed explanation-3: -After John Adams became president in March 1797, he dispatched a three-member delegation to Paris later that same year in an effort to restore peace between the two countries.
Detailed explanation-4: -The XYZ Affair (1797-1798) involved an American peace delegation in France, three agents of the French Foreign Minister (labeled as X, Y, and Z in President John Adams’ initial communications with Congress), and the French Foreign Minister’s demand for a bribe from the American delegation.
Detailed explanation-5: -Adams secured a $2 million loan. A revived Adams returned to Paris in 1782 to negotiate the peace treaty that would end the Revolutionary War. The task reunited him with Benjamin Franklin. Like Adams, John Jay, the third delegate, refused to negotiate until England recognized American independence.