A is the correct answer.
The Allies declared after the Potsdam Summit that the only surrender they would accept from the Axis powers was an unconditional surrender, that is, one without any conditions attached it to be the surrendering party.
Truman was fully briefed about Japan's resolve and had to weigh that in deciding where and how to force Japan into an unconditional surrender. If they had not dropped the bomb, preparations were being made to land an invasion force.
I think it was because Public education would require large amounts of tax dollars.
Canada and the two companies, the Hudson's Bay co and the Northwest Co both had fur trade outposts to the areas NW of the Appalachian mountains in the frontier areas like Manitoba and Saskatchewan on the Great Plains and in areas where the First Nations were well established and there were plentiful furs to supply the posts .
It would be the cult of Mithras
True of course these are very big issues around the world