(ANSWER CORRECTLY FOR BRAINLIEST) George Washington’s Farewell Address, carefully prepared with the aid of Alexander Hamilton, was published in September 1796, a few months before Washington left office. In his address, he issued warnings to the American people, including several dealing with the country’s relations with foreign powers.

Questions to Consider DIRECTIONS: Read the following excerpt from Washington’s Farewell Address. Then answer the questions that follow. . . .

[I]inveterate antipathies against particular nations and passionate attachments for others should be excluded; and that in place of them just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. . . . So likewise a passionate attachment of one Nation for another produces a variety of evils.—Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification. . . . The unity of Government which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you.—It is justly so;— for it is a main Pillar in the edifice of your real independence; the support of your tranquility at home; your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very Liberty, which you so highly prize.— But as it is easy to foresee, that from different causes, and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth;— as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness.

How might foreign powers pose a threat to the United States if this warning is not heeded? Cite with evidence.