Answer:
d) They didn't want to allow another slave state into the country.
Explanation:
The United States went to war against Mexico over the issue of Texas independence from Mexico, and subsequent annexation to the United States, a position that was supported by most of its inhabitants (including those of Mexican descent, also known as Tejanos).
However, the problem was that if Texas was admitted to the United States, it would become a slave state. The Eastern Part of Texas has the same climate and geography as Louisiana or Mississippi, and therefore, large slave plantations could be started there, and the annexation of Texas would then mean that the delicate balance between Free States and Slave States would break in favor of the slaves states. This is essentially what made Congress doubt about going to war with Mexico.
<span>Four clear options emerged for the freedmen and women after the war: obtain land, move, work for former masters, or sharecrop. Some freedmen were able to obtain their own personal land to work to support themselves and their families. Others opted to move to the cities and the North to find work that was not agrarian based. Directly after the war, plantation owners established a contract labor system that employed their former slaves</span>
Nation is the correct answer.
