Answer:
You need to be a moderator.
Explanation:
It's failed because it fell on the hands of promoters and speculators
Henry David Thoreau was a transcendentalist, don’t know about the other guy though. But if I were a betting man, I’d put my money on transcendentalism
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