It increased the size of the United States because it was based on the idea that America was destined by God to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in other words, it encouraged many to expand west.
hope this helps i actually just learned about this in class :)
Congress was split, as the French had helped the young United States during the Revolutionary War, however, many where confused what direction the revolution was going (spoiler alert, the French Revolution traded a monarchy for a dictatorship with Napoleon at the helm - so it didin't accomplish a whole lot).
Although both parties(the Democratic-Republicans and Federalists) had different hopes for the french revolution, they both agreed that war would be economically not possible and would possibly open the U.S up to attack, so the U.S remained neutral.
They weren’t able to because of The Treaty of Versailles called for Germany to pay war reparations to France.
In order to truly understand an event - whether personal or historical - it is necessary to look at it from multiple perspectives.
Just like you cannot understand history from just one book, you need to ask multiple persons to help you with your personal event.
