The Following Questions Refer to the Excerpt Below

question 43

Multiple Choice

The following questions refer to the excerpt below.
"British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations,and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it,not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy,but of a municipal [internal] prerogative over British subjects.British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels… "
James Madison,1812
-As a result of the War of 1812,

• A) British soldiers left the forts in the Northwest Territory that they had occupied since colonial times.
• B) British sympathizers were forced to leave the United States.
• C) there was a great surge of nationalism in the United States.
• D) the United States lost a devastating war, which took years to recover from.

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Respondeat Superior

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Unauthorized Acts

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