My guess would be d. previously, because it's talking about early cars.
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
This is true bc that is how you identify pessimism
        
             
        
        
        
I would say G >>>>> Hope this helps 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
Lincoln said: 
"I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable questions of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone."
-Lincoln After Losing 1858 Senate Race
 
        
             
        
        
        
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<em>Era</em> means the span of time define for the purposes of chronology and historiography.