This is why leaders Followed a policy of appeasement
President Polk wanted California but knew Mexico would not agree to sell it and his only avenue was to start a war (knowing the US would win it).
Answer:
::(the Republican Party )
Explanation:
With the election of Abraham Lincoln (the first Republican president) in 1860, the Party's success in guiding the Union to victory in the American Civil War, and the Party's role in the abolition of slavery, the Republican Party largely dominated the national political scene until 1932.
Oceans allowed them too trade
hills offered defense
A and D are both correct, though A is more correct
