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John Adams Takes Office
• Second President• Thomas Jefferson – Vice President• First election with political parties
IV. Problems with France
• Near war with France – French seized U.S. ships- to prevent trading with the British
• Diplomats are sent to France to restore peace
• XYZ Affair – report to President Adams that French officials tried to bribe U.S. diplomats
• Bribe – Loan France 10 million• Pay 250,000 to French minister
• Alien and Sedition Acts – laws that said that immigrants had to wait 14 years to become a citizen
• Sedition- saying or writing anything false or harmful about the government
• States rights- theory that said states had rights that the federal government could not violate. (declared unconstitutional)
Portrait of a Nation in 1800
• The U.S. is a nation of 16 states, population 5 million– Almost 1 million slaves
Still mostly an agrarian (agricultural) societyOnly 1 in 25 Americans was a city dweller
• Age of Homespun• Most Americans are self-sufficient– live and work on a farm– Produce their own food, clothes, and furniture
Samuel Slater
• 1790 - Samuel Slater builds the first spinning mill in Rhode Island
• Hired whole families
• Eli Whitney also invents the cotton gin– From one pound of
cotton a day, we can clean 50 pounds a day