Hello! I need help with this question for my history class. I don't understand it at all.
If it helps at all we use the American Pageant the 13th addition as our textbook.

If the "Model Treaty" that John Adams authored had been the basis for the American alliance with France, would the results of the American Revolution have been the same? Do you agree that Benjamin Franklin's French alliance is an example of "practical self-interest trumping idealism," as the authors state? In what other situations during the Revolutionary War does practical self-interest trump idealism?