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During the Maurya and Gupta empires, the Indian culture and way of life were deeply influenced by Hinduism. Hinduism reinforced a strict social hierarchy called a caste system that made it nearly impossible for people to move outside of their social station.
The correct answer is: "the end of American neutrality in World War II"
The Lend-Lease Act was a program enacted in the US in 1941 to provide support to Allied countries so that they could defeat the axis forces (nazi Germany, fascist Italy and the Japanese Empire) in WWII, but the US had not decided to directly participate in the conflict yet.
The program consisted on the distribution of food, oil, and all types of military materials and it remained functioning since 1941 until the end of the conflict in 1945.
Well, the only one that actually makes sense to me is C.
The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism.
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answer: to assimilate indians into mainstream American culture