Which of the Following Statements Identifies the Primary Tension Shown

Which of the following statements identifies the primary tension shown by Americans following the War of 1812, along with its significance?

A) American economic growth greatly slowed due to the cost of the war, which made ordinary Americans much less willing to take risks, uproot families, and use unstable paper money.
B) Americans remained united around issues such as slavery but grew divided over whether the nation should expand any further, which for a time put a halt to most western expansion.
C) Americans experienced a widespread sense of pessimism due to their poor performance in the war, which caused leading southern Republicans to return to Thomas Jefferson's presidential initiatives.
D) Americans were confronted with the issue of how to balance nationalism and sectionalism, which required regions to make decisions that clearly favored some regions over others.
E) President Madison abandoned the Federalist idea of economic nationalism, which led Americans to focus on the role of individual states in growing the army and lowering tariffs.