Answer:
The answers are:
A. Providing information to voters about party members running for
office.
B. Determining the party's position on controversial foreign policy
issues
Explanation:
Local parties deal only with local or regional issues. National parties may also deal with such issues sometimes, but they rather deal with national affairs, somethig local parties don´t usually do.
The answer is A because if you know who Robert Fulton is, then you know that his steamboat is called Clermont, which makes it the answer.
Slaves mainly but gold and salt good be included as well
This quote makes clear that there is a very clear hierarchy at the Executive Branch.
Only the truly hard decisions are left to the President. Most decisions in the Executive Branch are taken care of by people who are, as President Obama put it, "down the food chain".