John Adams & Foreign Affairs
While serving as president, Adams sought to keep the United States neutral amid tensions between these two nations.
What are France and Great Britain?
This act made it a crime to criticize the government.
What was the Sedition Act?
This Democratic-Republican wrote the Declaration of Independence and ran against John Adams in 1800.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This territory, ceded to the United States by Great Britain in the Treaty of Paris, drew settlers westward.
What was the Northwest Territory?
This French leader offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the United States.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
In this diplomatic scandal, French officials insulted and tried to bribe American diplomats.
What was the XYZ Affair?
This act allowed the president to imprison or deport noncitizens considered dangerous.
What was the Alien Enemies Act?
This Federalist candidate ran for reelection against Thomas Jefferson in 1800.
Who was John Adams?
This territory, ceded to the United States by Great Britain in the Treaty of Paris, drew settlers westward.
What was the Land Ordinance of 1785?
This port, sought by the United States, controlled trade along the Mississippi River.
What is New Orleans?
These two political parties clashed during Adams’s presidency over foreign affairs and federal policy.
What are the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans?
This act lengthened the time immigrants had to wait before becoming citizens.
What was the Naturalization Act?
When Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied in electoral votes, this branch of Congress chose the president.
What is the House of Representatives?
This 1787 law outlined how territorial governments would be organized and new states admitted.
What was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
This purchase brought a vast territory from France to the United States for fifteen million dollars.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
This conflict followed the XYZ Affair, with American and French forces attacking each other’s ships without a formal declaration of war.
What was the undeclared naval conflict between the United States and France?
These two state resolutions, written secretly by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts.
What are the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions?
This amendment changed how the president and vice president were elected after the election of 1800.
What is the Twelfth Amendment?
Under the Northwest Ordinance, a territory could apply for statehood after reaching this population.
What is 60,000 people?
These two explorers led the most famous expedition sent by Jefferson to explore the West.
Who were Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
Adams kept the names of the French officials involved in the XYZ Affair secret, referring to them by these three letters.
What are X, Y, and Z?
This principle argued that states could ignore federal laws they considered unconstitutional.
What is nullification?
This election marked the first peaceful transfer of power between political parties in the United States.
What was the Election of 1800?
The Northwest Ordinance prohibited this institution in the Northwest Territory.
What is slavery?
Reaching the Pacific in 1805 and returning in 1806, this expedition recorded information about western plants, animals, and geography.
What was the Lewis and Clark expedition?