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 * =﻿The XYZ Affair: Consequences of Dipolmatic Failure.- Ayleen, Jamie, Brenna=

Summary:
media type="custom" key="7611951" width="210" height="210" align="right" The XYZ Affair was a diplomatic incident that almost led to war between the United States and France. The French seized three hundred American ships sailed to British ports in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean and Caribbean Seas. Alexander Hamilton asked for war, but President Adams sent a diplomatic delegation to Paris in 1797 to try and negotiate peace. After a couple weeks of meetings and deliberations with various ministers, three French officials informed the American mission, that the U.S. government would have to apologize for certain anti-French statements made by the president. France wanted America to give a war loan to France or 10.000. Talleyrand The American delegates, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry rejected France's demands "Not a sixpence," was their response ("Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute"). Brought on by the XYZ affair,The Quasi-War was an undeclared war fought entirely at sea between the United States and French Republic from 1798 to 1800. In the United States, the conflict was sometimes also referred to as the Franco-American War, the Undeclared War with France, the Undeclared Naval War, the Pirate Wars, or the Half-War
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Consequences: BiBLIOGRAPHY: XYZ Affair." //infoplease//. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Dec 2010.
 * The XYZ Affair worsened relations between the United States and France and led to the undeclared Quasi War of 1798.
 * The Jay Treaty of 1795 angered France, which was at war with Britain, and thought the treaty was evidence of an Anglo-American alliance.
 * President John Adams and his Federalist Party had also been critical of the extreme radicalism of the French Revolution, further making relations worse between France and the United States.[[image:-xyz-affair-1797.jpg]]

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