Question

One reason President George Washington called

for a policy of neutrality in the 1790s was to
(1) improve his popularity among Federalist
voters
(2) avoid United States participation in
European wars
(3) gain support for the development of a United
States navy
(4) enforce the Treaty of Alliance with France

Answer 1

One very good and possible reason (that was at the same time very logical from his perspective) why George Washington decided to call for a policy of neutrality was to avoid United States participation in European wars (2). And he did this with a good reason. A young nation as the US in those times couldn't afford making and drafting men into an army and then shipping them to Europe to help a possible ally, they needed to build their own nation at the time.