page_title: Diplomacy of John Adams
hierarchical_section_title: Diplomacy of John Adams
caption_attribution_description: English: Official Presidential portrait of John Adams
context_page_description: John Adams was an American Founding Father who served as one of the most important diplomats on behalf of the new United States during the American Revolution. He served as minister to the Kingdom of France and the Dutch Republic and then was sent to help negotiate the Treaty of Paris to end the American Revolutionary War.
  Adams served as the first minister to Great Britain and then returned home. Relations with France dominated diplomacy during his presidency. American anger at French insults in the XYZ Affair of 1797-98 escalated into an undeclared naval war, called the Quasi-War. One wing of his Federalist Party that was led by his rival, Alexander Hamilton, demanded an all-out war. He rejected it and secured peace with France in 1800.
context_section_description: John Adams (1735-1826) was an American Founding Father who served as one of the most important diplomats on behalf of the new United States during the American Revolution. He served as minister to the Kingdom of France and the Dutch Republic and then was sent to help negotiate the Treaty of Paris to end the American Revolutionary War.
  Adams served as the first minister to Great Britain and then returned home. Relations with France dominated diplomacy during his presidency (1797-1801). American anger at French insults in the XYZ Affair of 1797-98 escalated into an undeclared naval war, called the Quasi-War. One wing of his Federalist Party that was led by his rival, Alexander Hamilton, demanded an all-out war. He rejected it and secured peace with France in 1800.
caption: Vice President Adams in 1793 by John Trumbull
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