The Pretext for General Andrew Jackson´s 1818 Military Raid into Florida

question 21

Multiple Choice

The pretext for General Andrew Jackson´s 1818 military raid into Florida was that

• A) Spanish landowners were plotting to attack Georgia.
• B) fugitive slaves and hostile Seminole Indians were using the territory as a refuge.
• C) Spanish pirates based in St. Augustine were harassing American merchant ships.
• D) the defeated Napoleon was going to be secretly exiled there.
• E) the British were building a secret chain of forts there.

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