Context Deconstruction! Read the context statement below. As you read underline the W's(who, what, when, where, why, how). George Washington's first term as president (1789-1793) coincided with the outbreak of revolution in France, a cataclysmic event that was to touch off a series of wars between the new French Republic and the monarchies of Europe. Washington's entire eight years as president, as well as the four years of his successor, John Adams, were taken up with the question of whether to give U. S. support to (a) France, (b) France's enemies, or (c) neither side. Who When Why How Where What?