<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be the one having to do with how this discovery led to a "gold rush," that brought thousands of settlers out to the West, since this played a role in the westward expansion of the US. </span></span><span />
Whigs opposed the war because many of them thought that going to war with mexico would encourage slavery expansion and allow the US to gain new southwest territories
Spain was becoming a powerful industrial nation in the late nineteenth century
Honestly, I tried to look but I don't know. Here's a picture of the general area that it should be around (the red box). This is in Italy north of Rome.