France, went bankrupt after lending a hand to the American Revolution, and The King and Marie wasted money on themselves.
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.
United States was an agrarian-based nation. Prior to World War II, people were involved in agriculture than other existing industries. Technological improvements in farming introduced during the war years reduced farming dependencies on manual labor freeing people to move to the cities to find white collar jobs after the war.