The militiamen at the Battle of Concord "fired at the soldiers along the road." (B)
For example, this quote states that "Fighting started again soon after, however, with the militiamen firing at the British from behind trees, stone walls, houses and sheds."
True,
without them the politics would be controlled by the people, who are uneducated and are not experts
Discrete and ordinal
These can be seen as factors that are all out because of the level of threat and as such treated as discrete or subjective factors. They can also be regarded as absolute factors can be additionally sorted as either ostensible, ordinal or dichotomous.
I’m pretty sure the answer is railways... but you may want to look it up