What was the congress solution in war in the early years of the war

What would lead a historian to consider two events to have a relationship of correlation rather than causation?

Before the invention of the loom in 1785, textile manufacturing was: a) regulated under the guild system. b) performed by children working in factories. c) produced in rural cottages under a putting-out system. d) conducted by british colonists overseas.

Which group was responsible for determining the borders of african colonies and later countries