| Term | Definition |
|---|
| john adams | XYZ affair |
| john adams | alein and sedition acts |
| john adams | states rights |
| XYZ | france began attcking americans ships trading with britan |
| XYZ | President adams sends delegation to discuss these attcks |
| charles de Talleyand | was incharge of french gov |
| charles de Talleyand | sent 3 french agent to meet with the americans |
| charles de Talleyand | 3 french men demanded a loan and a bribe |
| charles de Talleyand | americans refused to pay |
| adams reffered to the 3 french men as | XYZ |
| congress repsonded by | establishing a navy debt |
| congress repsonded by | allocating money to build ships |
| congress repsonded by | increasing the size of the army |
| french reffuges | were coming to the US becaus eof the french revolution |
| adams wondered | if US went to war with france who wo9uld the refugees sid ewith |
| adams wondered | if refugees became citizens would they vote democratic rupublic |
| Alein Act | the presidents could deport aleins |
| sedition act | makes a crime to spread right or publish critits of gov. |
| Naturalzation act | to become an alein had to live in the US for 14 years befor becoming a citizen(instead of 5) |
| states rights | james madisonand thomas jefferson feared a strong central government |
| the wrote the Kentucky and Virginia | resolution 1798 |
| states had the right to judge the constituionality of federal laws | states might nullify federal law considered unconstitutional |
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