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The Free-Soil Party’s platform could best be described as "<span>(A) opposing the expansion of slavery into western territories," since the question of whether or not newly-admitted states in the US would be "slave" or "free" was that main issue that led to the Civil War. </span>
The United States was transformed from a predominately rural agrarian society to an industrial economy centered in large metropolitan cities. Prior to the American industrial revolution, most Americans were reared in largely isolated agricultural households and small towns that were linked to the external world by horse drawn wagons (Olmstead and Rhode 2000: 711). Except for towns that were connected to railroads or water borne shipping, isolation and the costs of overland transportation meant that many rural communities were largely self sufficient in food, clothing, and many other essentials of everyday life.
Technology helps speed up the process of globalization.
Answer: Option C
<u>Explanation:</u>
Globalization is the process in which countries come together and are dependent on each other and trade with each other without any obstacles and hindrances to promote their growth and development.
Technology has helped to improve this process further by speeding up the process of communication among the countries and and to exchange goods and services faster with each other and making new innovations.
It helped open up China for trade with all sorts of different countries because their borders were currently closed to trade before the opium wars.