Pharisee.............................
Yup! The answer is C! I made sure! :)
It seems as though as long as USA interests are left alone, nothing much would be done. Or if foreign involvement is bothering US interest then action will be taken as a last resort.
I believe the answer is: To control trade along the Mississippi River.
By controlling the Mississippi river, Thomas Jefferson believe that they could eliminate british influence in products distribution to different states. He counted that the amount of products transported from this river could accounted to around 500 million tons of shipped goods per year.
To the discovery of America, the " New World"
