What made it difficult for early united states leaders to maintain neutrality during conflicts between france and great britain? a) the united states’ national bank had investments in france. b) the united states’ national bank had investments in great britain. c) each nation urged the united states to halt trade with the other. d) neither nation wanted to trade with the united states.

Look at the painting the lictors bring to brutus the bodies of his sons by jacques-louis david (1789). the most likely message this painting sends to french citizens is that one must be prepared to sacrifice their own children to preserve france. loyalty to one’s country stops short of sacrificing one’s own children. brutality is an integral part of revolution and the reign of terror. no one is immune to death, not even the leaders of the revolution.