Question

Which of the following pairs of men would be considered War Hawks?

• A. Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
• B. John C. Calhoun and Aaron Burr
• C. Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun
• D. Henry Clay and James Madison
• E. Daniel Webster and James Madison

Answer 1

The correct option is C Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun

The War Hawks were a group of Republican Congressmen who, at the end of the first decade of the 1800s, demanded that the United States declare war against Great Britain, invade British Canada, and expel the Spanish from Florida.