What exactly is your question?
The major cause of shifts in political allegiance during this time came from the Great Depression, which required strong government intervention to correct the issue. These interventions became commonly ascociated with the Democratic Party, thanks to FDR.
Answer: rocks weathered due to the effect of water.
Explanation: Placer deposits forms when rocks weathered due to the effect of water. The heavy minerals from the rocks get settled down in water. Minerals that form placer deposits have high specific gravity, they are resistant to chemical weathering process and are durable.
I do not know the answer, but if I were to guess, that it would be the one about plantations.
Plantations were hotspots of manual labor, specifically slaves. And when slaves were outlawed the plantation owners lose there main source of “profit” (aka the need to not pay workers for manual labor and instead use that money to get more laborers) it seems like the logical answer to me.
Also using process of elimination we know that the war could have spilt the country in two. So the union was indeed saved.
"b. It was vague and its parameters were hard to define" was a criticism made of George H.W. Bush's New World Order, since he only spoke of global governance.