Answer:
Answer B
Explanation:
A. Cannot be the answer because the confederates still believed in American manifest destiny.
B. Is the most likely answer as the confederates fought a mainly defensive war against the union.
C. cannot be the answer for the reasons stated above.
D. is not the answer as that was not the initial goal, the initial goal was to form an indipendent country, but during the end there was an election in which which confederates could have won the election to end the war on confederate terms.
