Answer:
Because he argued that people have natural and unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property.
Explanation:
In 1900, attacks took place across China in connection with the Boxer Rebellion<span> which targeted Christians and foreigners. </span>Many missionaries with their children, as well as native Christians<span> were killed and much property was destroyed.</span><span> While most missionaries, including those of the largest affected mission agency, the </span>China Inland Mission<span> led by </span>Hudson Taylor, refused to even accept payment for loss of property or life "in order to demonstrate the meekness of Christ to the Chinese" when the allied nations were demanding compensation from the Chinese government,<span> not all missionaries acted with similar restraint.</span>
<span>Union General </span><span>William T. Sherman led
a march from Atlanta to Savannah that destroyed the buildings, farmland and
homes. This is called the Savannah Campaign. The main reason why Union General
Sherman made this march is to scare the civilians.</span>
The correct answer to this open question is the following,
In 1829, President Andrew Jackson offered to buy Texas from Mexico for $5 million. The Mexican government responded to President Jackson's offer to buy Texas with a negative. Mexican rulers did not agree.
The reaction of the Mexican government was to prohibit more American emigration to Texas. United States people and some Texans did not want to learn and assimilate the Mexican culture, did not want to convert into Catholicism, and never considered learning Spanish, the official language in México.
Texans did not consider themselves Americans, either Mexicans; they were Texans and were eager to form their own Republic.
