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5 Cards in this Set
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Sectionalism
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A tendency to be more concerned with the interests of your particular group or region than with the problems and interests of the larger group or country
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XYZ Affair
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The US delegates were informed by three French agents that negotiations could not begin until the US granted a $10 million loan to the French government and paid $250,000 to French foreign minister Talleyrand.
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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
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Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. The resolutions argued that the states had the right and the duty to declare unconstitutional any acts of Congress that were not authorized by the Constitution.
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Jefferson as President
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In 1803, in the midst of the Napoleonic wars between France and Britain, Thomas Jefferson authorized the Louisiana Purchase, a major land acquisition from France that doubled the size of the United States.
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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Allowed the president to imprison or deport aliens who were considered dangerous to the United States. They also restricted speech which was critical of the federal government.
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