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13 Cards in this Set
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impressment
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British practice of kidnapping American sailors to force them to serve in the British navy
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right of deposit
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right to transfer goods at a destination w/o having to pay duties on the cargo
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sectionalism
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loyalty to a particular part of the country
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French Revolution
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French people overthrew the monarchy & made the country a republic
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Edmond Genet
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hoped to persuade American to honor an alliance treaty with France
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John Jay
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was sent to negotiate a settlement with the US and Britain
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Jay's Treaty
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Britain gave up forts in the NW and US payed debts to Britain
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Pinckney's Treaty
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recognized the US's southern border as the 31st paralledl and guaranteed US navigation rights on the Mississippi
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Thomas Pickney
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negotiated Pickney's treaty
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Charles-Mauricede Talleyrand-Perigord
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France's foreign minister
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XYZ Affair
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France wanted a bribe and a loan from US in exchange for an agreement that they wouldn't attack American ships
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Alien and Sedition Acts
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law passed that made it easier to deport foreigners & illegal to print or speak words hostile to the gov
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Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions
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statements that denounced the Alien & Sediton Acts
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