The Zollverein was an economic union of 30 states. The correct option among all the options given in the question is option "b". Zollverein is actually a coalition of German states whose main agenda was to manage the tariffs and all the economic policies within the German territories. Later on it expanded to other European countries as well.
The correct answer is A. A widening gap between the rich and poor. This is the correct answer because the was a huge social disaster, and it divided people of social class. They basically split them into either the poor or the rich. So there was a huge gap.
Spanish priests, a colloquial reference to the presence of the Catholic church in the Americas during their colonization by Spain, were responsible for the conversion of indigenous peoples to Catholicism in the Americas. A two-pronged philosophy of "humanizing" drove the Church's conversion impetus.