Diary Entry #5

            Dear Diary,

 

 It's me, Chayton today in 1798 in Philadelphia I was coming back from work when I read on a newspaper that the U.S.government had two problems and now had to resolve these conflicts. One of the problems was that U.S. does not want to have war with France, because they did not want this country to be in danger of being taken over by France so he found the solution by sending three men to settle things with Talleyrand, but that he sent three men and that Adam's calls them the "X,Y, and Z". That the French demanded a $250,000 bribe as payment for seeing Talleyrand. And that they called this insult the XYZ Affair and made Americans feel Anti-French from this insult. And President Adams did not want damage his reputation as President so he agreed to pay, but the federalist were against his idea and wanted a full-scale war against France. After that they had another problem but this time it was in our country and it's because of the Federalist that put four measures that became to known as the Alien and Sedition Acts. The first three measures known as the Alien Act that it raised the residence requirement for American citizenship from 5 years to 14 years and allowed the president to deport or jail any alien considered undesirable. The fourth measure is known as the Sedition Act that sets fines and jail terms for anyone trying to hinder the operation of the government or expressing false statements against the government.