Mark an X along the spectrum to indicate where President Adams's response to attacks on U. S. Ships falls. Then write a sentence explaining your placement.

President Adams wanted to protect the attack on the US ships by the French.

Explanation:

According to the Jay treaty, the British commander agreed to pull off their soldiers from Ohio Valley. But the French took this Jay treaty as the violation to its own treaty with U.S. and they began attacking the ships of the United States.

Then President Adams sent representatives to France government and asked them to end the attack on the U.S. ships. But the French minister refused to speak to Adams's representatives and instead sent some secret agents and said they the French would not stop attacking the U.S. ship unless they receive a huge tribute of money from the Americans.

Thus the U.S congress inducted many army people and built new ships for the U.S navies and launched wars on the seas against the French.

punish germany and keep it weak,

this means that germany had to pay the allied countries. reparations are/is essentially payment for something that they have done wrong, so after ww1, germany was forced to pay reparations so they could replenish the allied countries resources' that they had lost during the war.