What was the Union’s strategy at the beginning of the Civil War? Check all of the boxes that apply. a. To blockade the Confederate coastline b. To hold out until Confederate forces got tired c. To control the Mississippi River d. To pay for the war by selling cotton to Europe e. To capture Richmond, Virginia

Why were presidents andrew jackson and martin van buren unwilling to annex texas? a. they did not want texas to be admitted to the union as a slave state. b. they feared that the annexation of texas as a slave state would lead to political problems within the union. c. they thought that texas was too large to be admitted to the union as one state. d. they did not believe in the idea of manifest destiny.