With Lincoln becoming president and representing the North, the Southern states seceded, leading to a war. The state governments of the South argued that since the Constitution and federal government was created by the states, the federal government had no right to stop states from seceding. President Lincoln and other northerners disagreed and wanted to preserve the Union by stopping states from seceding.
The agrarian societies, which work on farmlands, and are basically agricuturists, are mainly the male-dominated societies. The physical work involoved is hard and difficult and thus, men are involoved in the same and women are house wives. So, they are submissive. Giving them social capital improves their confidence in themselves, encourages them to develop themselves into a successful person in terms of a skill or a small business and empower them.
According to a website, it describes how Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that "glide over the mantle (which is the rocky inner layer)"
So, basically, it's talking about how the Earth's crust is structured.
Definition: a theory that is describing (or explaining) the structure of Earth's crust
