Which of the statements below did NOT cause the War of 1812? * British Impressment of American sailors
British blockade of French ports
O Alliance with France
British helping out Native Americans

Alliance with France

Explanation:

America was unfortunate in that for most of the period from 1803 to 1812 political power in England was held by a group that was pledged not only to the defeat of France, but also to a rigid maintenance of Britain's commercial supremacy."[12] That group was weakened by Whigs friendly to the US in mid-1812 and the policies were reversed, but the US had already declared war. By 1815, Britain was no longer controlled by politicians dedicated to commercial supremacy and so that cause had vanished.

You must first distinguish clearly between the two works: first, the poem by Shelley, where he gives his impression of the sculptor's work; second, the statue itself, which we know only by it's remainings.

I) Shelley gives his perception about a ruler's power through the ambiguity he sees in the work of the sculptor. He says in lines 6 and 8 that the sculptor well read Ozymandias' passions, but he also mocked them. It is like the sculptor did such a good job of capturing the emperor's feelings that he was able to see through them: and over time any great power a ruler have will be swallowed by time. The three last lines of the poem oppose greatness ("colossal", line 13), and decay and emptiness ("The lone and level sands stretch far away", last line).

II) The statue was huge and it was made for public exhibition. Historians know it served to display the greatness of the ruler in a place where most of the society walked by during their lives. The size of the statue, his expressions and position, seems to show that the sculptor tried to imprint on it the magnificence of the ruler. Different from Shelley, the statue didn't seem to be made thinking of the limits of the ruler's powers.