I believe the answer would be: C. Custer and his force arrived ahead of the main U.S. force.
It mostly talks about rights and civil rights. Like freedom of speech. Press and religion. So the last option
-Zhu Di: Emperor Yongle. He finally became a Emperor of China I believe.
-Vasco da Gama: this man was a successful Portuguese explorer. One of them was that he went from I believe it was Portugal and India. I believe that's where he went, but that one of his big achievements.