What made it difficult for early us leaders to maintain neutrality during conflicts between france and great britain?
a. america’s national bank had investments in france.
b. america’s national bank had investments in great britain.
c. each nation was pressuring the us to halt trade with the other.
d. neither nation wanted to trade directly with the us.

The correct answer is c) each nation was pressuring the U.S. to halt trade with the other.

The issue that made difficult for early leaders to maintain neutrality during the conflicts between France and Great Britain was that each nation was pressuring the U.S. to halt trade with the other.

By the 1800s, emperor Napoleon was at war with Great Britain. Napoleon had established what he called the Continental system that forced other nations to stop trading with England. The United States suffered to keep neutrality in the conflict because France and Great Britain were forcing America to take one side.

on april 6, 1917, the u.s. joined its allies--britain, france, and russia--to fight in world war i. under the command of major general john j. pershing, more than 2 million u.s. soldiers fought on battlefields in france.