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Because when he sent a team to Paris to try to resolve the problem, the French officials choose not to meet with the Americans, instead they sent three agents who demanded a bribe and loan for France from the Americans.The Americans refused and when Adams learn this he got really furious.
British agents from Canada armed native Americans in the west.
He tired to stop them
The XYZ Affair was an incident in 1798, during a period when French privateers were regularly seizing U.S. merchant ships, and that precipitated an undeclared war between the US and France . President John Adams sent emissaries to France to negotiate . They were met by three French agents who identified themselves as X,Y and Z and demanded a substantial bribe for access to the French foreign minister. The Americans were outraged.
The incident is called the XYZ Affair. It took place in 1797 when three French agents, identified only as X, Y, and Z, demanded a bribe and a loan from American diplomats in exchange for stopping French attacks on American ships.
Secret Service agents. They are employees of the Treasury Department.
The XYZ Affair was an incident in 1798, during a period when French privateers were regularly seizing U.S. merchant ships, and that precipitated an undeclared war between the US and France . President John Adams sent emissaries to France to negotiate . They were met by three French agents who identified themselves as X,Y and Z and demanded a substantial bribe for access to the French foreign minister. The Americans were outraged.
They were the IRS agents of their day. Americans have never liked the people who take their money for the government.
He was furious. as said so in my History book;)
Adams called them "X, Y, and Z" in his report to Congress, as a way to protect their identities.
Agents of socialization
He was furious. as said so in my History book;)