How Did the Trent Affair Almost Trigger a War Between

question 105

Multiple Choice

How did the Trent affair almost trigger a war between the United States and Great Britain?

• A) American frontiersmen crossed the Canadian border and attacked some settlers.
• B) A Union diplomat insulted the British monarch.
• C) The Union navy seized a ship carrying Confederate diplomats going to Great Britain and France.
• D) British shipyards built the Trent to serve in the Confederate navy as a commerce raider.
• E) None of these choices

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Definitions:

Modus Tollens (MT)

A logical form of argument that concludes the inverse of an antecedent from the negation of the consequent of a conditional statement.

Constructive Dilemma (CD)

A form of argument in which, from two conditional statements and the affirmation of their antecedents, one infers the affirmation of their consequents.

Atomic Sentences

Simple sentences that cannot be broken down into smaller sentences without losing meaning.

Truth Table

A tabular method for representing the logical relationships of statements or propositions by showing every possible combination of truth values.