How did the French Revolution further exacerbate sectional politics in the United States?
A) Republicans supported France's assault on monarchy; Federalists favored Britain and denounced the French as a "mobocracy."
B) Southerners favored Britain because they believed that the British offered the best potential market for southern agricultural exports.
C) Almost all Americans applauded the struggle because they hoped that the two nations would knock each other out and leave the United States as the premier nation in the Atlantic world.
D) New Englanders favored France because of the alliance signed during the American Revolution and because of their desire to see the French humiliate King George III.
E) New Englanders, southerners, and most residents of the Middle Atlantic states believed that the Washington administration's declaration of American neutrality was the only way to ensure the survival of their young republic.

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The French Revolution intensified sectional politics in the United States by dividing political parties along ideological lines: Republicans, who supported revolutionary France and its republican ideals, and Federalists, who favored Britain and were critical of the French Revolution, viewing it as chaotic and radical.

How Did the French Revolution Further Exacerbate Sectional Politics in the United