Answer: USA.
Explanation: Germany sunk US passenger ships (Lusitania being one of them) and tried to get Mexico to attack the US when the US decided to fully join the war.
Answer: Texas being admitted as a slave state.
At this time the U.S. was having a struggle of maintaining an equal balance between slave and free states. Texas joining the Union would mean an imbalance because Texas was a country with slaves and insisted on maintaining it.
Essentially the SEC was created to help protect investors that buy and trade stocks and bonds. The FDIC was created to provide a federal government guarantee of deposits. Basically, both of these were created to limit the risks that go along with savings and investment. Both of them were part of FDR's New Deal. I hope this helps! =)
It is true that "<span>D. Patricians held the political power and did not want to allow the common people a voice in government." It was very hard to break free of the lower classes. </span>