Armstrong's primer of United States history for school and family use by Armstrong A. C. & son pub

Author:Armstrong, A. C., & son, pub. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: New York, A. C. Armstrong & son
Published: 1881-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

those referring to the relations proper between the United States and France. The Anti-Federahsts desired to take up the cause of the French Republic ; while the Federalists desired America to be free from all alliance with foreign nations. Both parties put up their candidates—Adams, of the Federal, and Jefferson, of the Anti-Federal. Adams, receiving the greatest number of votes, became president, and Jefferson, receiving the next highest, became vice-president.

Adams'Administration.—1797-1801.—John Adams, the second president of the United States, had been a delegate from Massachusetts to the Colonial Congress, and one of the committee to draw up the Declaration of Independence. He was the first Minister to Great Britain from the United States as an independent government, and had served in other official capacities.

The French Revolution was now in progress, and a large part of the Americans, urged on by the French Minister, were anxious that the government should ally itself with the French Republic. The president, in spite of strong opposition, insisted upon strict neutrality. Whereupon the French Directory demanded an alliance, ordered its men-of-war to interfere with American commerce, and finally dismissed the American Minister from Paris. Gerry, Marshall, and Pinckney, were sent to Paris to attempt a settlement ; but the Directory refused to receive them, unless a quarter million of dollars were first paid down as restitution for injuries which they pretended to have received by Jay's treaty with Great Britain. This the ambassadors refused, and they, too, were ordered to leave. In 1798, preparations were made for war. The army was organized, and a navy fitted out for the protection of American commerce. In the next year Admiral Truxton won renown by his services. On one occasion, he attacked and took a French man-of-war with a force

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