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How Did Nicholas Biddle, the Director of the Second Bank

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How did Nicholas Biddle, the director of the Second Bank of the United States, instigate the bank war with Andrew Jackson?


A) As one of Jackson's critics, Biddle made an early application to renew the Bank's charter, knowing Jackson would veto it and possibly harm his own political reputation.
B) Biddle began transferring the Bank's funds without Jackson's approval to state banks that were nicknamed "pet banks."
C) Biddle claimed that as the Bank's director, he, and not the president, had "exclusive privilege" regarding whom the Bank could loan money to and financially support in other ways.
D) Biddle gave numerous loans to Indian tribes facing removal by Jackson's orders, so they could legally purchase their tribal lands and remain there.

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