One of the things that is perennially facing the new nation is the French Revolution. It is always this event looming over our first presidents' foreign policy. Please track at least through John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and how they deal with the French, and Europe as a greater whole.

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 One of the things that is perennially facing the new nation is the French Revolution. It is always this event looming over our first presidents' foreign policy.
Please track at least through John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, and how they deal with the French, and Europe as a greater whole. Finally, explain how the events of the French Revolution brought about the War of 1812.

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The Americans, after the American Revolution, struggled to define and determine the foreign policy and took cautious steps to not get involved in the conflicts and revolutions of the European countries. There were differences over the strategy for foreign policies between the Federalists and Jeffersonians. These sects were led by Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson respectively. After the French Revolution in 1789, Federalists did not trust the French and wanted to incline towards the side of England, but the Jeffersonians preferred supporting the new French Republic. 

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