The correct answer is A) They had differing ideas about a powerful national government.
After the Revolutionary War, states were consistently worried about the power of the national (central) government. Considering that one of the biggest reasons for breaking away from England was a tyrannical central government, helps to understand why there were differing ideas about the structure of the American govenrment when the US became independent.
This is why the United States, under the Articles of Confederation, had a small and weak central government. Some states liked this while other states felt that this central govenrment was too weak to function effectively.
I believe the answer is :<span>The historian is placing the argument in historical context.
Argument with historical context would tried to explain a certain historical event based on </span>the social, political, religious, and economic conditions that existed during a certain time and place.In the example above, the historian choose to base her argument on religious conditions in the past.