First and Last one
They did believe their culture was superior, that's obvious. During this they also got lots of benefits from the colonies.
The answer is choice 4 "the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France could lead to war with Spain"
I believe it is 1776, the answer would be B.
The states that had seceded, during the reconstruction engineered by Johnson were first supposed to sign papers stating that they would not secede again from the union. congress refused to sit also representative from these states until they complied with the reconstruction demands, and one by one they all complied.