The Triangle Trade brought labor for a <em>very</em> cheap price, much much cheaper than indentured servants. They also began to use the triangle trade instead of enslaving the locals because the natives knew their way around the land and could run away easily.
A christian idea, to liberate from social, economic, and political oppression.
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.
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It was starting to come out of the Great Depression.
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