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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

GEORGE WASHINGTONS LEADERSHIP AT TRENTON SARATOGA VALLEY FORGE

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“It’ll help a lot if you can avoid permanent rivalries and permanent alliances. Just try to get along with everyone when you can. Otherwise, you’re a slave to your policy, which may take you somewhere bad when the situation changes. Constantly being enemies with a particular country makes you reactive, and can even lead you to war when you really don’t need to, it makes you a slave to them, anxious for any kind of feedback, good or ill. A nation under these influences may impel its government to war based on passion which good reason would reject. At times bullying, just because you can, leads you to lose peace, or even your liberty.” Which point of emphasis from his Farewell Address was George Washington making in this passage?
A
Political parties should be avoided
B
Dangerous alliances with foreign nations should be avoided
C
A growing national debt should be avoided
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In his “Farewell Address, ” Washington offered his advice to the citizens of the United States. His key points were to warn Americans against the danger of political parties, to remain neutral in foreign conflicts and to celebrate their achievements.

Detailed explanation-2: -In this letter to “Friends and Citizens, ” Washington warned that the forces of geographical sectionalism, political factionalism, and interference by foreign powers in the nation’s domestic affairs threatened the stability of the republic.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the area of foreign affairs, Washington called for America “to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” Although the ideas expressed were Washington’s, Alexander Hamilton wrote a large part of the address.

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