You can either talk about police, education (school), highway building, or how taxes are used to pay for all those services. And then explain how whatever service you chose affects your family. Like for example, highway building can cause you or your parents to have to leave earlier because of detours. Or with taxes you can talk about how it puts your family on a budget.
The answer would be D, ruled by a small group.
These events occurred in this chronological order:
II, IV, III, V, I (answer C)
These are the dates of each event:
I - Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States in 1860.
II - The Compromise of 1850 was passed in September 1850.
III - The Kansas-Nebraska Act was effective on May 30, 1854.
IV - The Republican Party was founded in March 1854.
V - The Bleeding Kansas confrontations occurred between 1854 (as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act) and the 1860 general election.