Thomas Jefferson's First Major Foreign-Policy Decision in 1803 Was to

question 16

Multiple Choice

Thomas Jefferson's first major foreign-policy decision in 1803 was to

• A) purchase Louisiana from France.
• B) send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean to end the blackmailing and plundering of U.S. merchant ships by the Barbary pirates of North Africa.
• C) drive the British out of the northwest forts.
• D) purchase Florida from Spain.
• E) form an alliance with Spain.

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