Determine whether each item describes a cause of feudalism or a characteristic of the system of feudalism. - The king gave land grants to
nobles for providing knights
for wars.
- The Roman Empire fell when
the last emperor stepped
down.
- People needed safety
and protection.
- People were born
into a social class.
- There wasn't a strong
central government.
- People turned to the Catholic
Church for spiritual direction.

Characteristics:

- The king gave land grants to  nobles for providing knights  for wars.

Causes:

- The Roman Empire fell when  the last emperor stepped  down.

- People needed safety  and protection.

- There wasn't a strong  central government.

I'm only confused on these two:

People turned to the Catholic  Church for spiritual direction.

People were born  into a social class.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

explanation:

powers  are  denied  to the  national governmentin three distinct ways: some  powers, such as the  power  to levy duties on exports or prohibit the freedom of religion, speech, press, or assembly, are expressly  denied  to the  national government  in the  constitution.