It is B, George Washington.
The option is D.
The best example of this is colonial
India, where several famines happened under British Rule, being the
first major of it in 1770, in the region of Bengal, where about
a quarter or a third of the population starved to death in a ten-month
period, and East India Company's raising of taxes to farmers
disastrously coincided with this, exporting
the majority of the crops to Europe, and leaving poor most of the population that was employed in agriculture in that moment.
In regard to gender issues in sub-Saharan Africa, generally speaking "<span>d. Women had more opportunities open to them than did their counterparts in other societies," although this depended slightly on the specific region and time in question. </span>
<span>The expansion brought up the issue of slavery, which divided both the North and the South. The North had industrialized itself, creating less of a need for slavery, and they for the most part were against slavery. The South still used slaves for their plantations, and they wanted to keep slavery to reap profits. The Supreme Court tried to absolve the issue of slavery in Dred Scott vs. Sandford, but this only angered the North more. This issue was one that eventually led towards the Civil War.</span>
The answer to your question is D.
