In what ways was Speaker of the House Henry Clay typical of the war hawks?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
Like many of the war hawks, Clay was a Westerner.
He was committed to the expansion of the boundaries of the United States.
Like other war hawks, he engaged in aggressive and overheated rhetoric.
He also agreed with other war hawks that Native Americans were an inferior and irredeemable race.
Clay agitated for a war with Britain. He believed such a war would eliminate both the British threat to American trade on the high seas and the Canada-based Indian–British alliance.
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