Benjamin Franklin implies that the alliance with France will help the United States because Spain and other European nations will decide to help the Colonies too.
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"Our States have now a solid Support for their Liberty and Independence in their Alliance with France, which will be certainly followed by that of Spain and the whole house of Bourbon, and probably by Holland and the other Powers of Europe who are interested in the Freedom of Commerce and in keeping down the Power of Britain. Our People are happy in the Enjoyment of their new Constitutions of Government [and] Will be so in their extended Trade and Navigation, unfettered by English Acts and Customhouse Officers." —excerpt from a letter by Benjamin Franklin, written in 1778
How does Benjamin Franklin imply that the alliance with France will help the United States?
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Spain and other European nations will decide to help the Colonies too.
Spain and other European nations will decide to help the Colonies too.
France’s intervention will persuade Britain to end the conflict.
France’s intervention will persuade Britain to end the conflict.
Britain will need to fight on too many fronts in North America.
Britain will need to fight on too many fronts in North America.
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