The X,Y,Z affair was an incident between French and American diplomats where they were trying to make a deal that would stop the French from seizing the America ships.
(that resulted in a war known as the Quasi-War.)
Americans were angered by this because the French agents wanted large amounts of money just to stop them from seizing their ships
When the allstons returned to their plantation at the end of the civil war, they were unable to regain control of their property from the freed slaves because <span>new relationships would have to be established with their former slaves.</span>
The answer is the last option: "Continental Army veterans of the Revolutionary War known as Minutemen"
O would say c but im not 100%