B
it provided protection from enemies.
Answer:
Option A is false/incorrect
Explanation:
The cabinet has no legal status/role under the constitution, secretaries do not have to be confirmed by the U.S. senate and the cabinet has no responsibility to the congress.
However, the cabinet meets at the instance of the president and does not only meet as a group during the state of the union address.
Option A is false
Answer: D. "My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin"
At the time of the Civil War, cotton had become the most valuable crop of the South and comprised 59% of the exports from the United States. As a result, it played a vital role in the conflict. For southern producers, the war disrupted both the producing and the marketing of what they hoped would be the financial basis of their new nation. As Confederate territory shrank under Union attack, invasion, and occupation, the traditional patterns of cotton cultivation and sales likewise came under assault.