It is A because each state receives electoral votes by the amount of members from that state in the House of Representatives
I think your answer should be either the third choice or second choice. They both make sense to me but the other two are definitely not it. Hope this helps! =^-^=
Some thought war was too drastic. They thought "wait a second, let's not do something crazy here. Let's just try to work with Britain to get our rights back, instead of overthrowing the whole thing and establishing our own thing. That's just too much." Some thought that we would lose the revolution (which, in all honesty, they had good reason to think that) and didn't want to upset Britain.