During the prosperous 1920's<span>, bank failures, together with low incomes among farmers and factory workers, helped set the stage for the </span>depression<span>.</span>
One of the main reasons why Congress did not initially annex Texas is because it would create an imbalance of free and slave states in Congress.
During the early to mid 19th century, the United States was constantly expanding their territory. This was due in large part to the concept of manifest destiny. As the US was spreading their influence, they ran into the problem of whether or not these new territories and states would have the institution of slavery.
Southern states favored new territories and states having slavery while Northern states did not favor slavery in these new territories. The reason behind the Northern states includeds:
1) Influences from the abolitionist movement.
2) Northerners did not want slave states to have more representatives in Congress than they did.
This caused Texas annexation to be delayed, since Texas would be admitted as a slave state. This would throw off the balance of free and slave states represented in Congress, giving slave states the advantage.
The correct answer is letter C.
Explanation: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People the leading association for the defense of black rights and the fight against racism in the United States. Mainly composed of black Americans, but with many whites as members, aimed at ending racial discrimination and segregation, the entity was formed as a result of the lynching of two blacks in Springfield, Illinois, in 1908.
Best answer among those choices: a. He was seen by some leaders as an anticommunist bulwark.
Details/context:
The other answers are not correct, so the "anticommunist bulwark" answer is the best available. There was some of that feeling in Europe's western democracies at that time. However, the bigger factor was simply that Britain wasn't ready to confront Germany and go to war.
An article by Dr. G. Bruce Strang of Brandon University, in the journal, <em>Diplomacy and Statecraft </em>(September 2008), explains:
- <em>The British government's appeasement of fascism in the 1930s derived not only from economic, political, and strategic constraints, but also from the personal ideologies of the policy makers. Widespread guilt about the terms of the Versailles Treaty and tensions with France created sympathy for German revisionism, but the Cabinet properly recognized that Nazi Germany represented the gravest threat to peace in the 1930s. Fear of war and the recognition that Britain would have to tolerate peaceful change underlay attempts to appease the dictators, culminating in the Munich agreement in September 1938. ... While most of the British elite detested communism, anti-communist views did not govern British policy; security considerations required Soviet support in Eastern Europe, and Britain and France made a determined effort to secure Soviet support for the Peace Front.</em>
