I believe the answer is: E. none of the above.
The turning point for our country was the American Revolution.
Without the revolution, we wouldn't be able to rise up and become a world leader like we are today, and would still lived for the service of The british Empire.
They wanted to build the erie canal so that there would be an easier way of transportation of goods from the Ohio valley and other places to the West of them
Culture can become a physical material if it is a product of the beliefs, customs and practices of a certain people with a definite culture. But a civilization is something that can be seen as a whole and it is more or less tangible although its basic components, like culture, can be immaterial....
In writing The General History Of Virginia, John Smith hoped to turn public opinion against the Native American population, by using inflated and heated rhetoric about them.
The answer would be B, sectionalism. Loyalty to the country as a whole would be nationalism.
A good way to remember the difference is that loyalty to the national government is nationalism, while loyalty to a section of the country is sectionalism.