14. Which of the following historical events in the 1790s most directly followed from the developments described in the excerpt?
Trade and manufacturing increased United States productivity and helped the federal government pay off its
bonds more quickly
George Washington's neutrality allowed the United States to trade with France, Britain, and Spain
simultaneously and pay down the debt.
The federal government granted French merchants a monopoly on the sale of American tobacco to pay debts
from the American Revolution.
The federal government established a new sonomic policy in part by assuming states' debts from the
American Revolution