From the wording of your question, especially the words "the following", I'm pretty sure you're looking at a list of choices that you're not sharing. There's no way that anyone can pick the right one if he can't see the list.
Developed in 1965, affirmative action is a policy that attempts C. to make up for past discrimination policies.
Through this action, more women and African-Americans were supposed to gain more rights than they had at that moment.
Answer:
Achievement
Explanation:
According to psychology, our behavior is motivated by different things and we all have different motivations for our behaviors. Therefore, two individuals can have the same behavior but be motivated by different factors.
One of the needs is the need for achievement and it refers to the desire to achieve a significant accomplishment and showing high-standards in a task by mastering the skills needed to do this task. In other words, it's the need to accomplish a task that is perceived as difficult.
In this example, Rodrigo enjoys being able to complete a difficult job successfully and accomplishing tasks which require skill and effort. We can see that he feels the need to accomplish a task that are perceived by himself (or others) as difficult by mastering skills. Therefore, we can see that he is motivated by Achievement needs.
Suspense
You can see this by the the setting of the excerpt.
For Economic reasons. Areas farther out areas had land that was poor for farming.