Bell Ringer What were challenges to Adam’s presidency?
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Bell Ringer
What were challenges to
Adam’s presidency?
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Exit Ticket
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?
What was the arguments for and against them?
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Bell Ringer
What was your favorite Super Bowl
commercial?
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John Adams Presidency
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Adams Takes Office• 1796 – 1st political election
w/political parties• Federalist = John Adams
VS.• Dem. Rep. = Thomas
Jefferson• Pinckney and Burr were also
candidates in the election, but Adams beat Jefferson by 3 votes.
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Problems With France• Britain and France still at
war• France seizing U.S. ships
– no trade w/ Britain• Adams sent
representatives to France
• France didn’t want to talk
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Problems With France• XYZ Affair– France wanted $10 million
in loans– $250,000 to French
minister Talleyrand, just to talk with the U.S. representatives
• U.S. Congress repealed all treaties with France
• U.S. ships started to seize French ships and fight an undeclared naval war.
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Alien and Sedition Acts• Increased the waiting
period for becoming a U.S. citizen from 5 to 14 years.
• Gave the President power to arrest disloyal aliens
• Outlawed sedition (slander on U.S. gov.)
• Very controversial• Used to silence Dem-Rep• Adams believed that people
wanted this• Legacy of Adams presidency
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States’ Rights
• Jefferson and Madison looked for a loophole
• States’ Rights: – states had the right to
judge if government passed an unconstitutional law.
• Can be compared to the Patriot Act
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Election of 1800• Sedition Act and federal taxes very
unpopular• Adams ran for president but people
disliked him• Tie between Thomas Jefferson and his
running mate Aaron Burr (both demo-reps)
• Vote went to the House of Representatives.
• Hamilton used his influence in support of Jefferson.
• This enraged Burr. His hatred of Hamilton increased until it led to the famous duel in 1804 in which Hamilton dies.
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Why did the XYZ Affair anger Adams?
What did U.S. citizens want Adams to do?
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Why was Adams not reelected? Do you
think his presidency was a success or a
failure?
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What do you think was Hamilton’s greatest
legacy? Why?
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•What were the dangers of Adams
keeping Washington’s cabinet?
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What were the three main ideas Washington
warned the Government not to do
in his Farewell Address?
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Why was signing the Alien and Sedition Act
and then crossing Hamilton a bad idea
for Adams?
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Why did the XYZ Affair lead us closer to war
with the French?
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•What did Aaron Burr do to avenge the betrayal of
Hamilton?