I believe the answer is the second one :)
They pledged mutual allegiance
During the Civil War, "Copperheads" referred to B. NORTHERN SUPPORTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.
The Copperheads were those vocal democrats located in the Northern United States of the Union who were opposed to the American Civil War. They wanted to have an immediate peace settlement with the confederates.
The Republicans were the ones who called these antiwar democrats "copperheads"; likening them to the venomous snake.
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An "economic motive"-if we have to resort to definitions. -is that tendency in human beings to calculate the costs and the. returns involved in pursuing a certain desirable end and to choose. that line of action which will give one the greatest returns in propor- tion to the expenditure of effort involved.
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The decline of the Maurya Dynasty was rather rapid after the death of Ashoka/Asoka. One obvious reason for it was the succession of weak kings. Another immediate cause was the partition of the Empire into two.
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