The correct answer is A.
<em>The Northern Securities Company</em> was formed in the year 1901 in the state of New Jersey. It was the merging of holdings of the following railroad companies: Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.
<em>This merger created a monopoly that monopolized the railway traffic between Chicago and the Northwest.</em>
President Roosevelt, fearing restraint of trade and competition, sued the company in 1902 under the Sherman Antitrust Act ( this acts regulated the competition among enterprises).
The government won the case and the company was dissolved. The three railroad companies started to operate individually again.
Usually, when writers use a technique called foreshadowing, they are foreshadowing "<span>B. Clues to hint at what will happen next", since this is done in a way that is implied but is not explicit--to keep the reader engaged. </span>
The Columbian exchange of crops affected both the Old World and the New. Amerindian crops that have crossed oceans—for example, maize to China and the white potato to Ireland—have been stimulants to population growth in the Old World. The latter’s crops and livestock have had much the same effect in the Americas—for example, wheat in Kansas and the Pampa, and beef cattle in Texas and Brazil. The full story of the exchange is many volumes long, so for the sake of brevity and clarity let us focus on a specific region, the eastern third of the United States of America.
<span>The beginnings or WWII led congress to pass five Neutrality Acts in an effort to stress our policy of remaining neutral. We did not want to get involved and pick a side.</span>
