The Americans thought of those people as lazy-backers, and made fun of them. They also humiliated them and ruined whatever good reputation they had.
The President of the United States has the most influence on United States foreign policy.
Okay, well a plow is used for farming. Basically the Sumerian plow is like a modern day tractor. If you have ever heard the term, "to plow the fields", you would know and immediately think of a tractor.
The X,Y,Z affair was an incident between French and American diplomats where they were trying to make a deal that would stop the French from seizing the America ships.
(that resulted in a war known as the Quasi-War.)
Americans were angered by this because the French agents wanted large amounts of money just to stop them from seizing their ships
