Which Statement Best Assesses the Washington Administration's Policy of Pacifying

question 36

Multiple Choice

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.

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