George Washington was an enormously popular general. Why didn't he try to become a king?

He believed in a republican form of government.***

He knew the army would be hard to control.

He thought future monarchs would abuse power.

He was afraid he would be assassinated.

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Sorry, I agree Ms. Sue.... A is the answer. My bad!

The main reason why George Washington did not try to become a king was because he firmly believed in a republican form of government. Washington was a staunch advocate of the principle that power should be held by the people and that a system of representative democracy was the best way to govern a nation. This belief in a system where power is distributed among elected officials and checks and balances are in place, rather than concentrated in the hands of a single monarch, guided his decision not to pursue kingship.

It is worth noting that Washington's belief in republican government was influenced by the spirit of the American Revolution, during which colonists fought against the rule of a monarch (King George III of Great Britain) and sought independence and self-governance. Washington's experiences during the American Revolution and his own leadership role in the fight for independence shaped his commitment to the ideals of democracy and the rejection of monarchical rule.

Therefore, rather than seeking to become a king, George Washington willingly stepped down from his position as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army after the American victory in the Revolutionary War and later became the first President of the United States, setting an important precedent of peaceful transfer of power and establishing the framework for a democratic republic.

I would say C: He thought the future monarchs would abuse power.