Well in the 1850's was a significant time where slavery occurs. As you probably know slavery was terrible on so many levels. Becuase of the different opinions on slavery their political values changed., Some values thought that slavery was okay while the other fought against it saying that slavery should end. Different sections such as Indiana and Illinois has strong opinions to keep slavery including the south when the rest of America did not feel so strongly.
Id say your best bet is A because Washington established the cabinet which aids presidents in running the country. It cannot be B, C or D because congressional oversight was already established by the constitution, there were only a couple departments, and the constitution already defined its purpose.
<em>Answer: A. cotton thread</em>
The answer would be the Tanakh, known as the hebrew bible. It has 24 books as opposed to 39 in the OT