<P> In the peace negotiations between the Americans and the British in Paris in 1782, the French played a major role . Indeed, the French Foreign Minister Vergennes had maneuvered so that the American Congress ordered its delegation to follow the advice of the French . However, the American commissioners, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and particularly John Jay, correctly realized that France did not want a strong United States . They realized that they would get better terms directly from Britain itself . The key episodes came in September, 1782, when Vergennes proposed a solution that was strongly opposed by the United States . France was exhausted by the war, and everyone wanted peace except Spain, which insisted on continuing the war until it captured Gibraltar from the British . Vergennes came up with the deal that Spain would accept instead of Gibraltar . The United States would gain its independence but be confined to the area east of the Appalachian Mountains . Britain would take the area north of the Ohio River . In the area south of that there would be set up an independent Indian state under Spanish control . It would be an Indian barrier state and keep the Americans from the Mississippi River or New Orleans, which were under Spanish control . John Jay promptly told the British that he was willing to negotiate directly with them, cutting off France and Spain . The British Prime Minister Lord Shelburne agreed . He was in full charge of the British negotiations and he now saw a chance to split the United States away from France and make the new country a valuable economic partner . The western terms were that the United States would gain all of the area east of the Mississippi River, north of Florida, and south of Canada . The northern boundary would be almost the same as today . The United States would gain fishing rights off Canadian coasts, and agreed to allow British merchants and Loyalists to try to recover their property . It was a highly favorable treaty for the United States, and deliberately so from the British point of view . Prime Minister Shelburne foresaw highly profitable two - way trade between Britain and the rapidly growing United States, as it indeed came to pass . Trade with France was always on a much smaller scale . </P> <P> Six years later, the French Revolution toppled the Bourbon regime . At first, the United States was quite sympathetic to the new situation in France, where the hereditary monarchy was replaced by a constitutional republic . However, in the matter of a few years, the situation in France turned sour, as foreign powers tried to invade France and King Louis XVI was accused of high treason . The French revolutionary government then became increasingly authoritarian and brutal, which dissipated some of the United States' warmth for France . </P> <P> A crisis emerged in 1793 when France found itself at war again with Great Britain and its allies, this time after the French revolutionary government had executed the king . The new federal government in the United States was uncertain how to respond . Should the United States recognize the radical government of France by accepting a diplomatic representative from it? Was the United States obliged by the alliance of 1778 to go to war on the side of France? The treaty had been called "military and economic", and as the United States had not finished paying off the French loan, would the military alliance be ignored as well? President George Washington (responding to advice from both Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson) recognized the French government, but did not support France in the war with Britain, as expressed in his 1793 Proclamation of Neutrality . The proclamation was issued and declared without Congressional approval . Congress instead acquiesced, and a year later passed a neutrality act forbidding U.S. citizens to participate in the war and prohibiting the use of U.S. soil as a base of operation for either side . Thus, the revolutionary government viewed Washington's policy as partial to the enemy . </P> <P> The first challenge to U.S. neutrality came from France, when its first diplomatic representative, the brash Edmond - Charles Genêt, toured the United States to organize U.S. expeditions against Spain and Britain . Exasperated, Washington demanded Genêt's recall, but by then the French Revolution had taken yet another turn and the new French ministers arrived to arrest Genêt . Washington refused to extradite Genêt (knowing he would otherwise be guillotined). Genêt became a U.S. citizen . </P>

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