Congress would find it difficult to go to war against another country, because there was no national army or navy to begin with. As well, it did not have the power to enforce laws or tax, so it wouldn't have been able to raise money for a war either.
Spain wanted to continue fighting; spain lost the spanish-american war; america bought the philippines.
I believe the answer would be A) because they became the all-out malevolent Devil-worshiper, who had made a pact with him in which they had to renounce Christianity and devote themselves to Satanism.
C,Tammany hall not an element of Republican party