As far as I know, the United States launched attacks against Iraq because of oil. <span />
The settlement of Stephen is in Texas
The sections of the Transcontinental Railroad joined together in Utah at a place called Promontory Point in 1869 where a famous photograph was taken of the two construction crew (minus the Asian workers who were forbidden from being in the photo) meeting and uniting the rail with a Golden Spike.
The south didn't grow crops very much, instead they grew cotton which made them rely on the North for crops and other materials. So the correct answer would be "B" since that seems like the most plausible answer.