Because they where trading with them bringing in lots of money
Citizen Genêt Affair, incident precipitated by the military adventurism of Citizen Edmond-Charles Genêt, a minister to the United States dispatched by the revolutionary Girondist regime of the new French Republic, which at the time was at war with Great Britain and Spain.
The answer is A,This is your answer.
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I think the answer is option D