The person is likely living in POST WORLD WAR II ALGERIA.
Algeria is part of the countries that made up the Arab region, its is situated in the Northern part of Africa between Tunisia and Morocco. Algeria was colonized by the French around 1830 and they remained in place until 1962. Most of the people of Algerian are Muslims and they are always in constant fights with the French settlers because they want the country to be independent from France.
This was the starting age of railroads and trains, so by this time, they could easily transport ore by train to other places. The booming use of the railroad system quickly made companies that you are talking about rich, which expanded the railroad system even further. New equipment was being invented to get goods and items to their destination in the shortest amount of time possible. The place you are talking about however, is Lake Superior, where there were an abundance of steel ore, but it was very isolated from everything else, so they profited more off of the railroad system than average.
World war 2 was the first happening in the 40s. Korean war followed in the 50s, and Vietnam war came in the 60s. The war on terror has been a thing since the 90s and definitely into the 2000s due to 9/11. That's why the correct answer is World War 2 - Korean war - Vietnam war - War on terror.
The colonists hoped to force the British to remove the Stamp Act. The colonists were angry at increased taxation which the British Parliament considered necessary to pay for the French and Indian War. As a result of the boycotts the Stamp Act was repealed
