Question

xplain at least two events from John Adams’ presidency and two examples of his civic virtue.)
IN YOUR OWN WORDS

Answer 1

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Answer 2

these r just notes but i hope this helps
o Time with lots of issues
o Great patriot
• Not a likable man
 He had to follow-up Washington
o Had opposition in his own party
• Hamilton undermined him
o War with France
• We were still their ally
 French saw Jay’s Treaty as a violation
• Seizing out merchant ships
• Refuse to see our ambassador
o XYZ Affair
o Adams refused to bribe them
• US got ready for war with Directory France
 Adams doesn’t want war
 We were in an undeclared naval war with France from 1798-1800
• Federalists wanted a war, Jefferson and Adams didn’t
 Threat of war ended when Talleyrand met with ambassador
 Napoleon and Adams ended the alliance in 1800
• No alliances for US until 1949
 Federalists feared French threat
o Also feared losing gov’t to republicans
• Alien Law
 Keep foreigners from undermining country
• 14 years residency to become citizen
o Don’t want aliens voting for Republicans
 Allows president to arrest & deport aliens in “hostile times”
• President could decide when times were hostile
o Felt like dictatorship
• Federalist Congress let him do whatever he wanted
• Sedition Act
 Sedition=treason
• Seen as worse than murder
• Aimed at “treasonous actions”
o Defaming gov’t officials
• Saying bad false things about them
• Republicans kept getting arrested
 Attack on the First Amendment
• Congressmen were getting arrested for disagreeing with Federalists
 Wrote it so it would expire if they were voted out of office
 Some people supported it
• Not many
 Secret statements were papers written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
• Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
o Just as dangerous as the Acts
• The Alien and Sedition Acts violated the contract w/ people to protect liberties
• Argued that it can be nullified in their states
 Laws mean nothing
 Worse than Articles
 Led to South feeling they could secede