Health reforms relate to someone's heath status and how they are doing
is A,New Alliances were formed
Eventually the Europeans, for reasons of their own, became reluctant to continue shipping so much silver to East Asia. This is largely because they preferred to hoard the silver so that they could use it to pay mercenaries in their ongoing wars. They started looking for something else to export to China and found that they were in a real bind because there were very few things that they produce more efficiently than the Chinese could. The thing that eventually filled the gap left when the Europeans tried to cut back on their silver shipments was opium.
Opium served a whole series of functions for the British in particular. It helped make their new colony in India profitable by providing a very ready revenue source. It saved on the silver that they no longer wanted to ship and, of course, the story of the opium trade to China then gets us into a whole different period of world history and different kinds of links between China and the outside world.
B.
<span>The federal government became the protector of individual civil rights.</span>
Both poems were pubished on the same decade, the 1920's, where there was the ascension of two American music genres, the blues and the jazz, from the Black community to mainstream apreciation later. The poems express the sensations of the subjects hearing the music, and characterize the sounds or musical representations that are being played.
Jazz Fantasia was written by Carl Sandburg and published in 1920. The weary blues was written by Langston Hughes and published in 1926.
So, the right answer would be b. involve musical art forms.