In Order to Enhance the Diplomatic Leverage of the Negotiations

question 85

Multiple Choice

In order to enhance the diplomatic leverage of the negotiations being conducted by American envoys James Monroe and Robert Livingston with Napoleonic France concerning obtaining American shipping access to the port of New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, President Jefferson

• A) threatened to form an alliance with France's enemy, Spain.
• B) was willing to go to war with France and Britain, simultaneously.
• C) proposed to break away from all alliances to prove our neutrality.
• D) was willing to use funds from private individuals if Congress would not authorize enough money for the purchase.
• E) proposed to make an alliance with his old enemy, Britain, against Napoleonic France.

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