“Any of a large range of membership organizations or associations that utilize secret initiations or other rituals and whose members often employ unique oaths, grips (handshakes), or other signs of recognition.” This should help !
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Austin gathers a militia and, with Mexican soldiers, marched to Nacogdoches to put down the rebellion. Despite the rebellion ending before his army got there, Austin won the confidence of the Mexican government. However, the Mexican government began to become distrustful of the loyalties of their American colonists.
Fearing that through the rebellion, the United States hoped to gain control of Texas, the Mexican government severely curtailed immigration to the region from the US. The new immigration law was bitterly opposed by colonists and caused increasing dissatisfaction with Mexican rule.
People were being executed for reasons other than actually being guilty.
D) the United States and the Soviet Union
