Download The Struggle Over Foreign Policy

THE STRUGGLE OVER FOREIGN
POLICY
6.2
OBJECTIVES
Explain how territorial expansion brought
Americans into conflict with the British and with
Native Americans.
 Describe American relations with Britain,
France, and Spain.
 Analyze how the political parties’ debates over
foreign policy further divided them.

KEY PARTS
Conflict in the Ohio Valley
 American Relations With Europe
 The Parties Debate Foreign Policy
 The Election of 1800

INTRODUCTION
Read Section 6.2
 Fill in the flow chart on page 198 in regards to
foreign policy.

CONFLICT IN THE OHIO VALLEY
The Treaty of Paris gave the United States a
large sum of land west of the Appalachians.
 However there were still manned British Forts,
that supplied Miami Indians with weapons.
 Chief Little Turtle was their leader.
 Their were a couple of skirmishes that were
fought and the Indians beat the small American
forces. Until the Battle of Fallen Timbers, where
the United States ended the Indian Confederacy.

AMERICAN RELATIONS WITH EUROPE
Responding to the French Revolution the United
States was divided by political parties.
 Democratic Republicans backed the French
whereas the Federalists believed that French
revolutionaries were bloody anarchists.
 By 1793 Britain and France were at war.
 Both parties in the United States declared
neutrality due to the weak state of America.

CONT.
The United States signed treaties with Britain
and Spain to ensure peace in the states.
 The treaty with Britain was John Jay Treaty of
1794 (Pulling British Forts out of the west, but
keeping the laws on American trading ships and
paying old war debt)
 The treaty with Spain was the Pickney’s Treaty
of 1795 (free trade for Americans along the
Mississippi and New Orleans, also establish
Spanish Florida’s border)

PARTIES DEBATE FOREIGN POLICY
John Adams defeats Thomas Jefferson narrowly
in the 1796 Presidential Election
 XYZ Affair-French officials sending a $250,000
bribe and humiliating terms to Adams.
 Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798- Authorized the
President to arrest and deport immigrants who
criticized the federal government.
 The Virginia and Kentucky resolution rendered
the Sedition Acts useless and unconstitutional.

ELECTION OF 1800
The Sedition Act and the new federal taxes had
become very unpopular.
 Adams tried various techniques to give him the
upper hand in the next election.
 Adams ended up losing the election by a very
narrow margin to Thomas Jefferson, in 1801.
