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The French were openly seizing American ships, leading to an undeclared war known as the [[Quasi-War]] of 1798–99.  President [[John Adams]] tried diplomacy; it failed. In 1798, the French demanded American diplomats pay huge bribes in order to see the French Foreign Minister [[Talleyrand]], which the Americans rejected. The Jeffersonian Republicans, suspicious of Adams, demanded the documentation, which Adams released using X, Y and Z as codes for the names of the French diplomats. A wave of nationalist sentiment overwhelmed the U.S. Congress approved Adams' plan to organize the navy. Adams reluctantly signed the Alien and Sedition Act as a wartime measure.  Adams broke with the Hamiltonian wing of his [[Federalist Party]] and made peace with France in 1800.

The French were openly seizing American ships, leading to an undeclared war known as the [[Quasi-War]] of 1798–99.  President [[John Adams]] tried diplomacy; it failed. In 1798, the French demanded American diplomats pay huge bribes in order to see the French Foreign Minister [[Talleyrand]], which the Americans rejected. The Jeffersonian Republicans, suspicious of Adams, demanded the documentation, which Adams released using X, Y and Z as codes for the names of the French diplomats. A wave of nationalist sentiment overwhelmed the U.S. Congress approved Adams' plan to organize the navy. Adams reluctantly signed the Alien and Sedition Act as a wartime measure.  Adams broke with the Hamiltonian wing of his [[Federalist Party]] and made peace with France in 1800.

* [[Jay's Treaty]], 1794  

* [[Jay's Treaty]], 1794  

* [[James K. Polk]]  

* [[James K. Polk]]  

* [[Daniel Webster]]

* [[Daniel Webster]]

==Civil War==

==Civil War==