<span>The French began seizing American merchant ships
that were trading with the British, so president John Adams, second president
of the USA and one of the Founding Fathers, rebuilt Navy to protect American ships and also started harassing
French ships. This was the undeclared naval war between the U.S. and France –
the Quasi-War which broke out in 1798. However, in In February 1799, Adams sent
diplomat William Vans Murray on a peace mission to France</span>
They defined it in terms of shared language and shared history.
A nation was a place with a single language because languages existed before nations and country names and territory changes but the language stays the same, only evolves as time changes. Shared history is based on the idea that people of a territory and their ancestors share history and are thus bound in a nation.
The establishment of the northern west territories
