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I agree with limiting the choices they can make until they are mature enough. This prevents them from doing something reckless and irresponsible in the moment. This also protects them from danger they are unaware of.
The answer to your question is,
A. Railroad operations across the nation
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Answer for the second
'Released from foreign war, we would probably be plunged into all the misery of anarchy and intestine war. Can we suppose that the people of the south, would submit to having the seat of Empire at Philadelphia, or New England; or that the people oppressed by a change of government, contrasting their misery with their former happy state, would not invite Britain to reassume the sovereignty.” — James Chalmers, Plain Truth, 1776
If the one above is the argument, you might consider that the colonists did obtain independence from England. That by itself was something that Chalmers always thought to be impossible without serious repercussions. He used to say that in the case of achieving freedom, America would just end up being attacked and maybe even colonized by some other country. What happened, thought, was that after the revolution, other countries gained respect for America as an opponent and the country was eventually left to be.
The Tet Offensive was the turning point of the Vietnam War. On January 1986, seventy thousand Vietnamese soldiers launched a strategic military campaign.