Under the Republic and as a young state, all of the following applied in Texas EXCEPT:
a. New laws took citizenship away from freedmen.
b. Laws limited each person to owning no more than 10 slaves at a time.
c. Crimes by African Americans were punishable by branding, whipping, and forced labor.
d. It was difficult for slave owners to free slaves..

Please select the best answer from the choices provided

In the introduction of becoming mexican american, sanchez draws from stuart hall's notion of cultural identity (pg. 12-13). hall asserts that identities are enmeshed in "becoming and of being." they are subjected to the elements and context of history. explain what you think he means by the idea of becoming and being and explain how context fits into comprehending the american concept of manifest destiny.