Jefferson's Response to British and French Interference with American Shipping

question 54

Multiple Choice

Jefferson's response to British and French interference with American shipping was:

• A) an effort to woo France into an alliance
• B) an effort to woo Britain into an alliance
• C) what he called a policy of "peaceable coercion"
• D) to ignore the matter and continue trading with both
• E) to shift the American economy toward industrialization

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