The correct answer is B.
The USS Maine battle ship was quietly riding anchor in Havana harbor, Cuba. At 9.40 pm on the night of February 15th, 1898, the ship was blown up apparently by a mine, in an explosion which tore out its bottom and sank, killing 260 officers and men on board.
No one ever established exactly what caused the explosion but it nevertheless resulted in the brief American - Spanish war because America strongly suspected the Spanish were the culprits.
1st person is a person telling the narrator's perspective, and 3rd person is a person who has plenty of stories and novels to tell and are written in 3rd person.
Answer:
The reagan administration was slow to respond
