1865, Jan.
United States House of Representatives passed the joint resolution proposing a thirteenth constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, which the Senate had passed in April 1864.
The answer is
B) it was written in the middle of the 18th Century
No, they were to help us stop from selling ammunition, guns, etc, to Europe and Asia, for the first Neutrality Act, to fuel the sense of isolationism for the United States, then the second act forbidding United States citizens from traveling on American merchant ships to prevent transporting weapons more so. But even with all the neutrality acts, in 1941 the Lend-Lease being sent through, giving permission to help aid the Allies, making the Neutrality Acts a Bust.
Well there's no simple answer to this; the French and English have had a long history of discord- they weee at war for a hundred years after all!