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A British political cartoon depicting the affair: ... The XYZ Affair was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the presidency of John Adams, ...
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) ... A 1798 political cartoon's depiction of the XYZ Affair with America as a female being plundered by Frenchmen.
A political cartoon depicts the XYZ Affair – America is a woman being plundered by Frenchmen (1798). Adams hoped to maintain friendly relations with France, and he sent a delegation to Paris, consisting of John Marshall, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Elbridge Gerry , to ask for compensation for the French attacks on American shipping.
A political cartoon depicts the XYZ Affair – America is a woman being plundered by Frenchmen. (1798) In an April 1798 speech to Congress, Adams publicly revealed Talleyrand's machinations, sparking public outrage at the French. [119] Democratic-Republicans were skeptical of the administration's account of what became known as the "XYZ affair."
Votes in the Electoral College, 1824 The voting by the state in the House of Representatives, 1825. Note that all of Clay's states voted for Adams. After the votes were counted in the U.S. presidential election of 1824, no candidate had received the majority needed of the presidential electoral votes (although Andrew Jackson had the most [1]), thereby putting the outcome in the hands of the ...
Join, or Die. a 1754 political cartoon by Benjamin Franklin published in The Pennsylvania Gazette in Philadelphia, addresses the disunity of the Thirteen Colonies during the French and Indian War; several decades later, the cartoon resurfaced as one of the most iconic symbols in support of the American Revolution.
An 1876 Nast cartoon combined a caricature of Charles Francis Adams Sr with anti-Irish sentiment and anti-Fenianship. [31] In general, his political cartoons supported American Indians and Chinese Americans. [32] He advocated the abolition of slavery, opposed racial segregation, and deplored the violence of the Ku Klux Klan.
John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin (presented from left to right) are depicted early during the negotiation process (Laurens and the younger Franklin were not present at the treaty's signing). Benjamin Franklin was the only U.S. delegate who did not pose in person; West drew his likeness from an ...