Neutrality Proclamation 1793

Answer 1

The Neutrality Proclamation was issued by Washington in order to deal with the situation created by the friction that existed among those Americans who sided with the British and those who were in favor of the French in the wars between those two countries.

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Answer 2

The significance was that the proclamation of neutrality stated that the US didn't take sides in the French Revolution, so the stayed out of the war(and their government was too young and that the military was too small and weak).

Answer 3

George Washington believed in order for the new nation to survive, it needed to remain neutral and not become embroiled in the constant wars Europe waged. When he heard France had declared war on Great Britain and virtually all of Europe in 1793. Washington met with his cabinet and asked them their opinion on whether or not they should remain neutral. Overwhelmingly, they agreed. While Jefferson agreed, he did not think it was necessary to issue a neutrality proclamation.

Answer 4

The effect of the war upon the United States will depend upon what American citizens say and do. Every man who really loves America will act and speak in the true spirit of neutrality, which is the spirit of impartiality and fairness and friendliness to all concerned. The spirit of the nation in this critical matter will be determined largely by what individuals and society and those gathered in public meetings do and say, upon what newspapers and magazines contain, upon what ministers utter in their pulpits, and men proclaim as their opinions upon the street.

The people of the United States are drawn from many nations, and chiefly from the nations now at war. It is natural and inevitable that there should be the utmost variety of sympathy and desire among them with regard to the issues and circumstances of the conflict. Some will wish one nation, others another, to succeed in the momentous struggle. It will be easy to excite passion and difficult to allay it. Those responsible for exciting it will assume a heavy responsibility, responsibility for no less a thing than that the people of the United States, whose love of their country and whose loyalty to its government should unite them as Americans all, bound in honor and affection to think first of her and her interests, may be divided in camps of hostile opinion, hot against each other, involved in the war itself in impulse and opinion if not in action.

Such divisions amongst us would be fatal to our peace of mind and might seriously stand in the way of the proper performance of our duty as the one great nation at peace, the one people holding itself ready to play a part of impartial mediation and speak the counsels of peace and accommodation, not as a partisan, but as a friend.

I venture, therefore, my fellow countrymen, to speak a solemn word of warning to you against that deepest, most subtle, most essential breach of neutrality which may spring out of partisanship, out of passionately taking sides. The United States must be neutral in fact, as well as in name, during these days that are to try men's souls. We must be impartial in thought, as well as action, must put a curb upon our sentiments, as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another.

Answer 5

The Proclamation of Neutrality was a formal announcement issued by George Washington on April 22, 1793, declaring the United States neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain. It threatened legal proceedings against any American providing assistance to warring countries. The Proclamation led to the Neutrality Act of 1794.

Answer 6

The Neutrality Proclamaion stated that the United States would not take sides with any European countries that were at war.

Answer 7

statement made by president George Washington that the united states would not side with any of the nations at war in Europe following the french revolution

Answer 8

it kept the U.S. out of war

Answer 9

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