A <u>D. market basket</u> contains thousands of specific items that represent what average urban households purchase month after month.
In economy, this economic market basket's items refers to goods and services purchased. It is used to track price changes over time and determine inflation levels, to help measure the cost of living of a giving group of people and help predict consumer purchase trends.
Some examples of the categories of items found there are food, beverages, housing, apparel, transportation, medical care, and education.
<u>How did the Union's victory strengthen the federal government</u>? The war demonstrated that the federal government would not tolerate states acting on their own (by making the Union more powerful than the other states). A stronger central government is more effective (the Union's victory), and the federal government owned the south for years after that to help rebuild from the civil war (giving them more power over the south). It also freed millions of African-Americans.
<em>States rights were largely made irrelevant, and the federal government took on powers forbidden by the Constitution.</em>
The Europeans traveled across the Mediterranean Sea to search the Silk Road to A) obtain clothes, spices, and other goods. They were not necessarily interested in ancient religious sites, they were not escaping natural disasters at home, and to a degree they were searching for new opportunities, but the better answer is A.
