The+Napoleonic+Wars



=**Questions**= Our question was //Why did America side with France?// Before we chose this question our question was //Did America ever side with Britain or France//?We changed our question because we found the answer right away. The new question is more of a debate. =**Gathering and Evaluating Evidence**= with our first question we went to Wikipedia and we started searching for our answer and found found the answer to our question right away.so we changed our question so it is more of a debate. after we had changed our question we did not find one answer. One of our struggles was trying to figure out another question that would be harder to find the answer to or that was a debate. =**Links:**= [|War of 1812] [|Jeffersonians] https://history.state.gov/milestones/1801-1829/napoleonic-wars Washington that the United States should remain neutral. =**Interpretation**=
 * //The Napoleonic Wars// (1799-1815) were a series of wars between //France// and shifting alliances between other //European// powers.
 * For a brief time, they made //France// the most influential power in //Europe,// as the conflicts cemented many of the fundamental changes emerging from the //French Revolution// not only in //France// but also in adjacent lands in //Germany, Italy// and the //Netherlands.// The social, political, and legal impacts spread even further in //Europe and Spanish America.//
 * excluding both "inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others", "steer[ing] clear of
 * permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world", and advocating trade with all nations.
 * But the rival Jeffersonians feared Britain and favored France in the 1790s, declaring the War of 1812 on Britain. After the1778 alliance with France, the U.S. did not sign another permanent treaty until the North Atlantic Treaty in 1949.
 * The United States lacked the resources and desire to enter the Napoleonic Wars, and even Jefferson agreed with Hamilton and

We could not find an exact answer to our question but we think that America sided with France because they feared Britain.