Based on this passage and what you have learned about the states, the states were unwilling to voluntarily work together in a confederation because each state had its own interests and needs.
Each state was in favor of proceeding their own interests and needs they believed that focusing on their needs would be a much better option in the long run. Unity wasn’t a wide practice during that era too.
I think the answer would be manufacturing industry .
"Lofty financially well to do citizens who carried much power within the community" would generally be referred to as being part of an "aristocracy", since this is a government that is controlled by such people.
The event that had happened in the death of Mike Costello
was during the time when he was in the foot ball practice, he was standing in
the zone at the end where he was there at the post. What led to his death was
because of the struck of the lightning, causing him to be dead on the spot.
