What was the primary reason the united states rejected the treaty of versailles?

a. the senate feared that the treaty would take away their constitutional right to declare war.

b. united states' officials were offended by french criticisms that were leveled at wilson and refused to continue negotiations.

c. the united states demanded that the allies liberate all their colonies, but britain and france refused.

d. the republican-controlled senate wanted to deal wilson a political defeat by rejecting the treaty.

e. the united states could not agree to the harsh reparations proposed by france because it wanted a strong germany to trade with?

The correct answer is A: The Senate feared that the treaty would take away their constitutional right to declare war.

The Treaty of Versailles was a formal peace treaty between the World War I Allies (Britain, France, Italy, and the United States) and Germany their enemy during the war. The then-majority leader of Senate, Henry Cabot Lodge, a Republican who came from Massachusetts, rejected the treaty, especially on the section about the League of Nations the primary reason being the fear that this would take their constitutional right to declare war. His reasons were that the U. s. would lose its power to the League of Nations.

The Treaty of Versailles became the formal peace treaty that ended World War I between the Allies and Germany.