The Struggle Over Foreign Policy Chapter 6 Section 2 The Struggle Over Foreign Policy
Conflict in the Ohio Valley Battle of Fallen Timbers 1794 - General Wayne defeat the Native American confederacy. - Native Americans forced to accept peace terms and cede present state of Ohio to the United States (Treaty of Greenville) - Expanding the Northwest Territory
American Relations With Europe French Revolution 1789 - republican uprising in France - opponents executed - declared war on European monarchies (Great Britain) America Divides - Federalists – revolutionaries were anarchists destroying religion and social order - Democratic Republicans – preferred French Republic to monarchies/ regretted executions
American Relations With Europe Signing Treaties with Britain and Spain -Jay Treaty of 1794 (Britain) -British gave up their forts in the U.S. - U.S. repaid prewar debts to the British -Pinckney’s Treaty 1795 (Spain) -guarantee Americans free shipping rights on the Mississippi River and access to New Orleans. -established northern boundary of Spanish Florida
Washington’s Farewell page 201 Why didn’t George Washington run again in the election of 1796? List Washington’s achievements while in office.
The Parties Debate Foreign Policy page 202 1796 Election President: John Adams Vice President: Thomas Jefferson Explain the X,Y,Z Affair AND the Alien and Sedition Acts. Election of 1800 President: Thomas Jefferson Vice President: Aaron Burr