Because they needed to have something to cook with and olive oil is a main thing to start the night off of cooking whatever meal it might be.
The answer is B, established a free trade zone with Mexico
The Republican Party emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into American territories. ... The party opposed the expansion of slavery before 1861 and led the fight to destroy the Confederate States of America (1861–1865).