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New Presidency
Washington steps down
• Washington only served two terms• His Farewell Address:– Don’t have political parties– Don’t make political ties with other countries– Stay out of debt
Election of 1796
• Republicans – Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr
• Federalists – Thomas Pinckney and John Adams
Who Won?
• John Adams was president• Thomas Jefferson was vice-president
XYZ Affair
• French were raiding American ships• Adams sent men to talk to the French foreign
minister to avoid war• After nine months of waiting to see him, they
said a bribe would help the Americans get to see him
• The French wanted $250,000 and $10 million loan
• Americans were outraged!• Adams told Congress about it, but used X, Y, Z
in place of the names of French who wanted the bribe.
• Americans got ready for war• Went to “Quasi War” with the French• The Convention of 1800 avoided all out war
with the French
Alien and Sedition Acts
• Four parts– 1. Naturalization Act – extended the time
required to gain American citizenship from 5 to 14 years
– 2. Alien Enemies Act and Alien Act – allowed the president to imprison or expel any “dangerous” foreigners
– 4. Sedition Act – any person who said, wrote or published anything false against the government could be fined and jailed
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
• Said that states had a right to nullify any federal law
Election of 1800
• Federalists – Adams and Pinckney• Republicans – Jefferson and Burr• Jefferson and Burr tied…who gets to be
president?• Jefferson wins
Supreme Court
• John Marshal was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court
• He worked to make the Supreme Court more powerful
• John Adams appointed 58 judges late the night before he left office
• They are called midnight judges
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