What Motivated the Actions That Resulted in the Dorr War

question 53

Multiple Choice

What motivated the actions that resulted in the Dorr War?

• A) the fear that the federal government would attempt to outlaw slavery
• B) anxiety over the growing income inequality in the 1820s
• C) frustration over the federal government's failure to honor treaties made with Native American tribes
• D) the desire to create an independent government free of the Spanish empire
• E) a desire to expand Rhode Island's voting laws to include those who didn't own property

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