Twain is using a satire exposing imperialism as revealed in the Boxer uprising and its aftermath, the Boer war and the philippines American war
C because the key word effect so answer c say's some thingthing about it "establish" meaning later on, also stock exchange would be something major because it allowed them to have new things they could never get in there own country.
B. Congress and state legislatures
Constitutional amendments can be proposed with a two-thirds vote from both the House of Representatives and the Senate or with a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the states’ legislatures.
False, though congress had little power it was still some power