Answer:
Correct Answer:
d. was part of an attempt by the United States to acquire Cuba.
Explanation:
The 1854 Ostend Manifesto a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase Cuba from Spain. And, also, the document was implying that, should Spain refuse US request, they will go to war over the island.
<em>Cuba's annexation had long been a goal of U.S. Southern States slaveholding expansionists due to their ambition of setting up a new territory for their slaves and slave business.</em>
In one of the most decisive battles in history, a large Roman army under Valens, the Roman emperor of the East, is defeated by the Visigoths at the Battle of Adrianople in present-day Turkey. Two-thirds of the Roman army, including Emperor Valens himself, were overrun and slaughtered by the mounted barbarians.
Multiple casualties, a broken economy, destroyed property and a divided country (brainly plz)