This answer is definitely A. merchants. Hope this helps please thank me and five star!
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, the answer is that he offended the pride of the South, since he was anti-slavery. </span>
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Spanish and French colonists were only going to the Americas for fur trades, gold, and silver. England went there to get religious freedom and land.
B) A bombing in Berlin, Germany.
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