The industrial revolution changed the way people worked by providing new technology and tools.
Northern strategists viewed the Mississippi River and its tributaries as vital to a Union victory in the Civil War because control of it would split the South in half.
During the Civil War, taking control of the Mississippi River became one of the main objectives for the North. On July 4, 1863 after a forty-day siege, Vicksburg was taken by General Ulysses S. Grant, which allowed the Union to control the river and divide the Confederacy into two.
Either
"Success will become ever more elusive"
or
"The elusive thought he had had moments before"
I think it is answer A, Common law because it is derived from custom and judicial precedent.
