Author Question: How did the French Revolution further exacerbate sectional politics in the United States? A) ... (Read 84 times)

berenicecastro · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

How did the French Revolution further exacerbate sectional politics in the United States?

A) Republicans supported France's assault on monarchy; Federalists favored Britain and denounced the French as a mobocracy.
B) Southerners favored Britain because they believed that the British offered the best potential market for southern agricultural exports.
C) Almost all Americans applauded the struggle because they hoped that the two nations would knock each other out and leave the United States as the premier nation in the Atlantic world.
D) New Englanders favored France because of the alliance signed during the American Revolution and because of their desire to see the French humiliate King George III.
E) New Englanders, southerners, and most residents of the Middle Atlantic states believed that the Washington administration's declaration of American neutrality was the only way to ensure the survival of their young republic.

Question 2

Which statement best assesses the Washington administration's policy of pacifying the northwestern and southwestern Indian tribes to weaken their friendship with Britain and Spain?

A) New Englanders derailed it because they feared disrupting commercial relations with Britain.
B) It constituted the greatest diplomatic triumph of the administration.
C) When France's revolutionary government sent Citizen Genet to the frontier to recruit Native Americans for the French side, the policy collapsed
D) The Indian Trade and Intercourse Acts went largely unenforced.
E) The policy backfired when Britain and Spain declared war on the United States to defend the Indian tribes.