<span>The correct answer is a) building a modern navy to break the Union blockade. Due to this blockade, the Confederacy suffered a food shortage. Additionally, the Union was able to divide the Confederacy after winning several key battles in the middle of their territory. Since the Confederacy was being defeated on land, they decided they would focus on their navy in order to defeat the Union by sea. Clearly, this didin't work.</span>
The reason for the war was that the Sparta feared the growing power and influence of the Athenian Empire.
New Jersey Plan proposed by William Paterson of New Jersey
Its proposal followed the Virginia Plan (written by James Madison and presented by Edmund Randolph) with a two-house legislature with representation that depended on state population.
I don’t know if this will help you But here is what I got about the Mexican American War.
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil. It pitted a politically divided and militarily unprepared Mexico against the expansionist-minded administration of U.S. President James K. Polk, who believed the United States had a “manifest destiny” to spread across the continent to the Pacific Ocean. A border skirmish along the Rio Grande started off the fighting and was followed by a series of U.S. victories. When the dust cleared, Mexico had lost about one-third of its territory, including nearly all of present-day California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico.