England and france wanted to destroy trade between the united states and other countries.
a. true
b. false

i believe it d) heterogeneous

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.

if i am correct the answer is going to be a) the federal program of reconstruction ended.