After the Revolutionary War,both Britain and Spain
A) tried to gain control of Florida.
B) regularly attacked American shipping.
C) prevented America from exercising effective control over about half of its total territory.
D) helped America to fight the pirates in North Africa.
E) abandoned their forts in the West.

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Both Britain and Spain prevented America from exercising effective control over about half of its total territory by maintaining military presence and influence in regions like the Northwest Territory and areas west of the Mississippi River.