The Following Questions Are Based on the Excerpt Below

question 35

Multiple Choice

The following questions are based on the excerpt below.
"Behold you then,...establishing the liberties of your country...may heaven favor your cause,and make you the channel thro'which it may pour it's [sic] favors while you are exterminating the monster aristocracy,& pulling out the teeth & fangs...What are you doing for your colonies? They will be lost if not more effectually succoured.Indeed no future efforts you can make will ever be able to reduce the blacks... We as sincerely wish their restoration,and their connection with you,...satisfied that neither your justice nor their distresses will ever again permit their being forced to seek at dear & distant markets those first necessaries of life which they may have at cheaper markets placed by nature at their door,& formed by her for their support."
Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Marquis de Lafayette in response to the French (and Haitian) Revolution, 1791
-Which of the following best characterizes the American government's reaction to the issues described in the passage?

• A) America's leaders called on the nation to avoid permanent alliances with foreign countries.
• B) The United States leaned increasingly towards an alliance with the British.
• C) Congressional leaders attempted to abolish slavery in the United States.
• D) America established a series of restrictive trade barriers.