If Americans were aware of the repeal of England's Orders in Council, they may not have gone to war.
The Chinese were addicted to the Opium.
The best option would be that "<span>a. his anti-war stance made him appear unpatriotic," although the main reason for his stance was that African Americans were being asked to fight for a nation that treated them as second-class citizens. </span>
Well.. none now since they're dead... haha but when they were alive they were flightless and very clutsy birds, no wonder why they're extinct!