I think its A. The US always trifle in worldly affairs of others mostly if it benefits the US for more support.
In the Catholic church they believed that if you weren't good enough to go to heaven you would go to a holding place called Purgatory In order to get someone out of this place you would have to buy indulgences. This was a ploy by the Catholic Church to scare members to buy these so that they could raise money.
The answer is "B", varied ecological regions.
Oklahoma contains 10 distinct ecological regions. That is more ecological regions per square mile than in any other state by a wide margin.