HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Saint-Domingue, Malnutrition, Xyz Affair
9 Mar 2016
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Hist 105 - lecture #17 (february 29, 2016) Disagreement over french revoluion: republicans (you are gonna have to spill some blood if you wanna have a revoluion, federalists (looks at french republican as brutal, arguments between republicans and federalists. Negoiaions: millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute. Xyz afair: negoiators on behalf of the french government, french oicials solicited bribes. Responses to federal government (speciically to alien and sediions act) Virginia and kentucky resoluions: jeferson, madison, states" rights, nulliicaion, secession. We are all republicans; we are all federalists. Spain forced its colonists to withdraw east end in early 17th century. French claimed west end of island; named it saint domingue. Export-based economy: 40% of europe"s sugar, 60% of europe"s cofee. Most proitable plantaion colony in the new world. Code noir, 1685: bapize slaves, provide for slaves, rights of freed slaves.
