Correct answer choice is :
<h2>B) A desire for personal gain over the common good</h2><h2 /><h3>Explanation:</h3><h3 />
As Democracy in America published, Tocqueville thought that equality was the great state and social concept of his period, and he thought that the United States allowed the most superior model of equality in action. He cherished American individualism but suggested that a society of individuals can easily become atomized and paradoxically consistent when every citizen, being conformed to all the rest, is lost in the crowd.
As texas was defending it's claim to be a new and independent republic in 1836, a final crucial victory was won at Las cruces, so B. Hope this helped :)