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Benjamin Franklin and John Adams
During what's known as the XYZ Affair, President Adams sent diplomats to France for the purpose of attempting to negotiate peace with France. The end result was the Treaty of Mortefontaine.
Charles Pinckney was the US Minister to France during the XYZ Affair. This occurred during the presidency of John Adams.
That was France in the XYZ Affair of the 1790s.
XYZ Affair
Benjamin Franklin and John Adams
The ultra-Federalists were angered with President Adams and his plan to negotiate with Napoleon.Their position was the opposite of party leader and US President Adams. They wanted to capture New Orleans and the Floridas.
John Adams was the US President (from 1797-1801). The resolution of the Quasi-War with France (1798-1800) came too late to help him gain re-election.
It was John Adams
I don't really think it affected his term in office.. He just had to think quickly to not go to war with France.
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