Your answer would be B). economic concerns like the gold standard and protective tariffs.
William McKinley and the Republican Party wanted the U.S to keep using the "gold standard" system. The gold standard system is a system where someone's account balanced is based off of a quantity of gold that they have. But, William Jennings Bryan and the populist were leaning toward the "free silver" system. The free silver system was a system that helped the poor farmers from the South and West to get America out of depression. During the election, the decisions was based on what kind of system people wanted U.S to go by, either the "gold standard" or the "free silver" system.
Alright. States’s right was easily of the biggest issues during the civil war. The main idea is that the Slaving-owning South believed that the Abolitionist North would eventually make slavery illegal, as the North held more political power then the South. They decided that in order to keep the North from using the federal government to abolish slavery, they would weaken the federal government. Thus the concept of State’s rights was used as an argument for Southern leaders and politicians.
During WWII, the tide turned on the Asian theater during the Battle of Midway.
D)It increased the strength of the Roman Catholic church as Jews and Muslims were expelled or forced to convert.
