The answer to the first one is 2;28
This period is known as the Gilded-Age, which followed Reconstruction and extended between 1865 and 1898, approximately. This was a period of unprecedented economic growth and also of social, political, technological, and cultural changes in the United States. A small but very powerful group of successful entrepreneurs - industrialists and financiers, for the most part - such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, among others, turned the United States into the largest industrial nation in the world, and also into one of the most modern. These significantly wealthy entrepreneurs established an endless list of cultural and educational institutions, such as museums, colleges and opera houses.
The term Gilded Age was coined by writer Mark Twain.
Answer:
Its probably A
Explanation:
I don't really think that any of those arguments are actually good. However, answer B is wrong because political parties won't necessarily lose financial support if somebody votes against them. it also doesn't really fit as an argument to why you should vote even though the other party will probably win. Number C is not logical because you don't just strt parties because the party you support loses. That way all the existing parties will lose votes and not only the ones you are against. Answer D is just a very bad argument. Think about, would you change where you proably live all your life just because they have more influence on the vote? What about your job, friends and family. And if they mean for you to fly or ride to another state just to vote and then come back, that bad too because it's expensive.
The answer is A) as a punishment
