President James Madison made a major strategic foreign policy mistake that undermined his effort to persuade Britain to repeal its commercial restriction against American trade when he
a. accepted Napoleon's promise to repeal its trade restrictions.
b. failed to suppress the war hawks in his own party.
c. permitted Napoleon to offer financial aid to the United States.
d. failed to take up Napoleon's suggestion that French trade restrictions would be lifted if the American trade restrictions on trade with France were repealed by the United States.
e. tried to use Russia as a counterweight to Britain and France.
a
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