The sectionalism is a tendency to be more concerned with the interests of your particular group or region than with the problems and interests of a section at the expense of the whole larger group, country, etc.
b XYZ Affair
The XYZ Affair is the US send Secretary of state John Marshall to France to make nice with Ze French. The problem was France would not let the Americans talk to a diplomat unless they paid $250,000.The Americans would not pay that money the result was undeclared war between the two countries, and this incident led to the QUASI-WAR.
c Alien and Sedition Acts
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Because to find the benefits of having alliances with other countries is a key point. At that time as a young country, America was heavily in debt, had no real army or navy. With this state of affairs, England, France, Spain, etc arguably could have attacked the US either at sea or on land. With the support of a European power, America's sovereignty would have more meaning.Further, the United States had envoys in most of the major European nations long before Washington’s farewell address. So, to act as if the U.S. was isolated from the rest of the world and that Washington’s entirety to stay that way was some axiomatic delineation of American foreign policy is simply wrong-headed. The first permanent alliance forged between the US and England during WWI and continued in spirit if not law through the present, brought the US into WWII in Europe. American involvement in the European theater allowed for a quicker end to that war, a limiting of the expansion of Stalinist Communism, and gave American industry a way to transition from a wartime economy to a …show more content…
The Civil War in the US was caused by various means of sectionalism, North versus South, White versus Black, Etc.
4 Example the political cartoon
1 what would you contrast the cartoon’s depiction of the American representatives with its depiction of the French Directory?
The American dressed elegant and modest the directory has five handed and looks like a monster and hold the dagger. the American looks like shorter than directory and looks like more brave.
2 what other details in the cartoon show the cartoonist’s attitude toward the Franch?
In the right corner, there has a guillotine aware that the reign of Terror and there have three directories play the card game. The card game maybe indicates the directory’s ambitions and threatening.
5 How was the XYZ affair used skillfully by Adams to improve the country’s national