Answer:
Correct answer is a. smuggling
Explanation:
A is correct answer because he was arrested by Mexican authorities in 1835 while he was engaged in mercantile business. He was arrested because he removed his merchandise although the authorities prohibited him to do so.
B and C are not correct as he was never accused of these crimes, while D is not correct because General Cos died by natural cause.
A couple of weeks before the Battle of New Orleans, the U.S. and British governments had negotiated and signed a peace treaty that put an effective end to the war between the two countries. Given that news from Europe took about a month to reach the U.S., both the U.S. soldiers led by General Andrew Jackson and the Red Coats led by General Sir Edward Pakenham was a pointless confrontation. A few weeks after the resounding U.S. victory (only 13 men were killed on the U.S. side and 285 on the British side), Jackson and his men got news of the peace treaty signed before their feat of arms.
A main reason that the age of revolutions initially failed to achieve widespread change in some nations of Europe was because many of these failed revolutions took place in the "backyards" of their mother countries--meaning that they were easily taken down with military power.
The Ninth Amendment states that there are other rights that may exist from the ones that are specifically mentioned and even though they are not listed, it does not mean they can be violated.
