The correct answer is: Ralph Waldo Emerson spoke out against the acquisition of the Southwest following the Mexican-American War.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
Answer:
A minority group had different cultural customs.
Explanation:
Many genocides happened in the twentieth century based on cultural difference. Some governments have used genocide as a solution to remove ethnic and minority groups from society. Some of the genocides are the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Turk, the Yugoslavia genocide, the Rwanda genocide, and the Holocaust.