ethnicity they belong to a same social group that means they have the same national/or cultural tradition
The correct answer is A. When California applied for statehood, the Southern states feared that they would lose equality in the Senate. Before the admission of California, Southern slavist states and Northern free states had the same number of Senators. But when California was admitted in 1850, it entered into the Union as a free state, so it created a power disbalance for the Southern states, giving to extra votes to the abolitionist states.
The correct answer is D) form an exploratory committee.
A potential candidate most likely forms an exploratory committee.
Before participating in a primary, the politician who is aspiring to run for the presidency, first of all, has to form an exploratory committee. This way he/she could asses the real chances he/she has and the probable support of the members of his party. In a bi-partisan system like the one in the United States has, the two more dominant parties have been the Republican Party and the Democratic party.
They are bribed into betraying Hamlet, and they are used by the king and queen to try and figure out why Hamlet has gone mad