The answer is A. Defense
The Defense of Marriage Act.
I think by stating that the Africans had not agency in their establishment and by stating that were inferior and dependent?
Because they got tired of oppressing south.
South was also tired of military rule. As the South got more and more upset about the military rule, North came under more pressure to end it.
The only reason for military rule was protecting the black rights. Most of the North didn't care abot black rights.
This was the reason why reconstruction ended.
The dispute surrounding assigning the border at the Río Grande or at Nueces River, coupled with the U.S. annexation of Texas in 1845, set the Mexican-American War into motion. This slice of land between the Río Grande and the Nueces River is called the Trans-Nueces, which you can see in the middle of the two yellow lines in the center of the map on the left. Lasting from 1846-1848, the Mexican-American War ended in the Mexico-U.S. border being set at the Rio Grande and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. As part of the Treaty, Mexico lost a devastating 55% of its land to the U.S., giving both countries the border we recognize today. Well, for the most part.