Of the Following, the Only Argument Not Put Forward by the War

question 19

Multiple Choice

Of the following, the only argument not put forward by the war hawks as a justification for a declaration of war against Britain was that  

• A) the British armed Indians and incited them to raid frontier settlements.
• B) British impressment policies were an affront to American nationalism.
• C) Britain's commercial restrictions had come close to destroying America's profitable New England shipping business.
• D) British Canada and Spanish Florida were attractive and easily obtainable prizes of war.
• E) the orders in council stopped the flow of Western farm products to Europe.

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