Thomas Jefferson's first major foreign-policy decision in 1803 was to
a. purchase Louisiana from France.
b. send a naval squadron to the Mediterranean to end the blackmailing and plundering of U.S. merchant ships by the Barbary pirates of North Africa.
c. drive the British out of the northwest forts.
d. purchase Florida from Spain.
e. form an alliance with Spain.
b
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