<u>Answer:</u>
B: Spain was a weaker nation and France a stronger one.
This was the result of the Thirty Years' War.
<u>Explanation:</u>
There were various reasons, religious, territorial and commercial rivalries which led to a thirty-year war, from 1618 to 1648 in European’s history. It started with the Holy Roman emperor imposing Roman Catholic absolutism on his domains and the protest of Bohemians and Austrians to the same.
Various other political reasons kept fueling the war between Poland, Spain, Russia, Moscow. In all these conflicts, Germany suffered the most. So, it couldn’t become a unified state. At the end, peace of Westphalia recognized Europe as an organisation of equal independent states. France emerged as the strongest nation as Spain was hurt badly.
I'd say the combustion engine, even though it was toyed with in the mid-west during the cowboy era, it wasn't until after the Civil War in which it was a fully effective gasoline powered engine.
Answer:
<em>Maintaining a legal and social framework, maintaining competition, providing public goods and services, redistributing income, correcting for externalities, and ensuring stability.</em>
Explanation:
<em>Maintaining a legal and social framework- creating laws and regulating trade, FDA, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Reserve</em>
<em>Maintaining competition- antitrust laws, regulating natural monopolies</em>
<em>Providing public goods and services- national defense, sewer systems, basic radio and television, national parks, and emergency warning systems</em>
<em>Redistributing income- Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid</em>
<em>Correcting for externalities- taxing carbon emissions, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Environmental Protection Agency</em>
<em>Ensuring stability- Federal Reserve System</em>
