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"[T]he Period Has Now Arrived,when the United States Must Support

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"[T]he period has now arrived,when the United States must support their character and station among the nations of the earth,or submit to the most shameful degradation.....The mad ambition,the lust of power and commercial avarice of Great Britain,arrogating to herself the complete dominion of the ocean,and exercising over it an unbounded and lawless tyranny,have left to neutral nations an alternative only between the base surrender of their rights,and a manly vindication of them. Under the pretext of impressing British seamen ...our Citizens are wantonly snatched from their Country... ;doomed to an ignominious and slavish bondage;compelled to fight the battles of a foreign Country and often to perish in them....While this practice is continued,it is impossible for the United States to consider themselves an independent Nation....
It is known that symptoms of British hostility towards the United States have never failed to produce corresponding symptoms among those tribes [on the frontiers] ...abundant supplies of the ordinary munitions of war have been afforded by the agents of British commercial companies ...wherewith they were enabled to commence that system of savage warfare on our frontiers."
What justification does Document 2 give for waging war with Great Britain?


A) British impressment of American seamen
B) British alliance with France
C) British impressment of frontier Indians hostile to the United States
D) British attempts to foment slave rebellion

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