The Decision at a GlanceIt is Christmas Day, 1861. A United States warship has seized two Confederate diplomats from a British ship on the open sea. The North is celebrating. Britain is furious and is moving toward war. The President must choose: hand the prisoners back and look weak to his own people, or keep them and risk a second war against the world’s strongest navy while the first war is going badly. There is no costless option.This evidence-based classroom simulation stops at the exact mo