Thomas Jefferson Ceased His Opposition to the Expansion of the Navy

question 28

Multiple Choice

Thomas Jefferson ceased his opposition to the expansion of the navy when the  

• A) the strategic usefulness of employing significant numbers of agile coastal naval crafts became apparent in the U.S. Navy's defeat of the Barbary Coast pirates during the Tripolitian War.
• B) U.S. Marine Corps was established.
• C) mosquito fleet was defeated by the pirates at Tripoli.
• D) army was disbanded.
• E) British blockaded the east coast.

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