The Compromise of the 1850s that proposed that California join the Union as a free state was proposed by Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky.
Formal and informal segregation, discrimination in employment and housing, denial of civil rights, and outright violence faced African Americans in the southern communities provided a major impetus to leave the region during the first half of the twentieth century.
<span>economic and political dependence on the United States, i think</span>
Not A because that's personification: giving objects human qualities.
Understand the definition of metaphor.
According to Webster dictionary a metaphor is :
a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”
I agree with answer being B.