The correct answer is B) civil liberties.
Civil liberties are constitutionally guaranteed protections against the abuse of government power.
Civil liberties were included in the Bill of Rights that are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. The Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion. The Bill of Rights was written by James Madison to protect the liberties and rights of the American people against the abuse of power of the government.
It is first important to understand that not all Republicans rejected a peace settlement with the Confederates during or after the Civil War, but it was a smaller group within the party that totally and completely refused and demanded a full surrender without conditions to the South. This group was called the Radical Republicans and they began around 1854 and went until after the Reconstruction of 1877. They were the ones who were responsible for the establishment of the Fourteenth Ammendment and they radically opposed any negotiations with the South on the basis of their being totally against segregation and slavery. Some other factions within the Republican party, including Lincoln, were more moderate and were willing to give in to some of the demands from the Confederates, especially ont he issue of slaves.
The reason for these radical Republicans not wanting to negotiate with the Southern Confederates, was that they refused to allow slavery to continue. They were pushing for all slaves in the U.S to be freed, for segregation to be prohibited, for rights for black people to be established in the United States and even went as far as pushing for civil rights, including suffrage, for African Americans. But the South, of course, refused these terms. This is why neither Radical Republicans, nor Confederate members would have been able to settle anything in a negotiation. There was no common ground for the toughest issue of all; slavery.
The Mexican society wasn't united, since they were constantly fighting with each other. Since soldiers were killed, they also lost military power. When the Spanish arrived, they had a strong military, but also diseases, which killed Mexican soldiers. That made the home society vulnerable.
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Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador, or conqueror, best remembered for conquering the Aztec empire in 1521 and claiming Mexico for Spain. ... "He was a smart, ambitious man who wanted to appropriate new land for the Spanish crown, convert native inhabitants to Catholicism, and plunder the lands for gold and riches."
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