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Why did John Adams send diplomats to France

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The XYZ Affair was a political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involing a confrontation between the US and the Republican France That led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War.
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An American diplomatic commission was sent to France in July 1797 to negotiate problems that were threatening to break out into war.
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