Congress sent three representatives to Paris to negotiate peace on behalf of the Americans in 1782. These representatives included Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay.
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The latest round of peace talks was causing more strife than relief. Some synonyms for the word strife are dissent, static, conflict, controversy, and friction.
The Mandan tribe was agreeable to the goals of Lewis and Clark, and their Corps of Discovery project. However, in spite of peace talks with a neighboring tribe, the Arikaras, fighting broke out. Fortunately, the Mandans kept their relationship with the explorers positive and provided them with food in trade for other goods.
He believed secret agreements and violations of right had occurred which touched us to the quick and made the life of our own people impossible unless they were corrected and the world secure once for all against their recurrence. He believed the 14 points would fix that.
Answer 1The French were shocked because they thought that John Adams was a cold and distant person and they didn't think he would want to reach out to the French.Answer 2One of the main differences between the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republicans in the early days of American Independence was whether the United States should be more closely aligned with Great Britain or with France. Most Federalists wanted stronger relations with Britain and saw that a skirmish with France would make more people anti-French. Additionally, they saw the peace talks as an act of capitulation to French interests.The bottom line was that the Federalists were expecting Adams (another Federalist) to allow the skirmish to escalate or to a least simmer for a bit.