26) Why was the territory of Texas annexed by the United States?
A)
Spain forced Mexico to allow annexation to happen after years of conflict.
B)
Texas was added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American
War.
c)
In 1845, the Republic of Texas voluntarily asked to be admitted to the
United States.
D)
Texas was annexed at the same time as California making the increase in
sizable for the United States.

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man