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 ''' XYZ Affair (1797-98)'''
 * '''Alien & Sedition Acts, 1797-8:
 ** Adams and congressional allies attempted to outlaw dissent
-''' opening of Washington DC as national capitol
+'''Washington DC as national capitol
-.2	Alien and Sedition Acts
-.3	Taxation and Fries's Rebellion
+'''Quasi-War''' 1798
+''' Taxation''' and '''Fries's Rebellion'''
+* as US prepared for the Quasi-War with France
+** Congress imposed a "direct tax" upon all of the states
+*** = a federal tax apportioned by population per state
+**** the "Direct House Tax of 1798" was calculated by houses, lands, and slave ownership
+*** the only time a direct tax was ever imposed by Congress
+* the tax was unpopular
+* in 1799, John Fries, a German-American, organized resistance to the tax in Pennsylvania
+** local militia captured tax "assessors" (who were to "assess" property values for the tax assessment)
+** Federal marshals arrested resistance leaders, but local groups liberated them
+** Adams ordered federal troops to arrest the insurgents
+** Fries and others were arrested and charged with treason
+*** Adams granted amnesty to them in 1800
 Other concepts & terms:
 '''Republican Motherhood'''
 * idea that a woman's role was to nurture virtuous male citizens
 '''Northwest Territories'''
 '''Indian Wars'''
 ''' new States''':
-** Vermont (territory ceded by New York) 1791
+* Vermont (territory ceded by New York) 1791
-** Kentucky (“western”), 1792
+* Kentucky (“western”), 1792
-** Tennessee (“western”), 1796
+* Tennessee (“western”), 1796
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