I was thinking between either C or D but D seems to make more sense to me.
The Federal soldiers are the antagonists.
Its c bih!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Grapes of Wrath<span> by John Steinbeck - An </span>Excerpt<span>. Once California belonged to Mexico and its land to Mexicans; and a horde of tattered feverish Americans poured in. ... The Mexicans were weak and fled. They could not resist, because they wanted nothing in the world as frantically as the Americans wanted land.</span>