This depends on if a refers to the current government.
If it is, then the answer is D. none of the above
However, the articles of confederation, america's first government, was the first thing that Americans did after the war, so the answer could also be A
<span>Elizabeth Blackwell
</span><span>First American woman awarded a medical degree by a college. Attended Geneva College in New York after she was rejected by all the major medical schools in the nation because of her sex. Elizabeth Blackwell later founded a women’s medical college to train other women physicians.
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<span>Clara Barton
</span>Clara Barton got involved with tending the needy when she treated injured Union soldiers on the battlefield during the Civil War. She later was the founder and first president of the American Red Cross.
<span>Susan B. Anthony
</span><span>The 19th century women’s movement’s most powerful organizer.
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<span>Louisa May Alcott
</span><span>Author who produced the first literature for the mass market of juvenile girls in the 19th century.
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Pearl S. Buck
<span>With her novels about American and Asian culture, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. </span>
Answer: A. Jean-Jacques Rousseau :)
The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. ... The election of Lincoln served as the primary catalyst of the American Civil War. The United States had become increasingly divided during the 1850s over sectional disagreements, especially regarding the extension of slavery into the territories.
Answer: Today, Columbus has a controversial legacy—he is remembered as a daring and path-breaking explorer who transformed the New World, yet his actions also unleashed changes that would eventually devastate the native populations he and his fellow explorers encountered.