Which Was a Cause of the Panic of 1819

question 68

Multiple Choice

Which was a cause of the Panic of 1819?

• A) a decline in the European market for American farm products
• B) debts incurred to finance the War of 1812
• C) the Bank of England's demand that American merchants pay their creditors in gold or silver
• D) a flood of immigrant labor into American cities
• E) the collapse of the Second Bank of the United States

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