Robert E. Lee was promoted to Confederate general because another officer was killed in battle. President Lincoln had confidence in him. his home state seceded from the Union. he had experience in the Mexican-American War.

the answer would be:

b. race

your answer is 1930's

explanation

this is just around the time the great depression was starting and putting the us ecnomy into ecnomic failure causing the goverment to take a much larger rule to try and pieace it back together

the answer is b. hope this