SUPER URGENT PLZ HELP After this State of the Union Address, the statement that the annexation of Texas was born of a "choice of the people themselves to share the blessings of our union" was (5 points)

Select one:

a. countered by devastating conflicts with Hispanics and American Indians

b. embraced and set the tone for further peaceful North American expansion

c. reviled as a spin of political rhetoric to distract from the imperialistic spread of the republic

d. upheld as a model for the idea and implementation of Manifest Destiny

D

Explanation:

the United states would not criticize the thing that made them proudest st fhat time. the statement summarizes manifest destiny

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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