I’m so lost on this one can someone please help me

What event had weakened florida’s economy immediately before the start of the great depression? a) the freezing of orange trees b) the end of florida’s land boom c) the start of another world war d) the building of florida’s railroads

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

What misguided strategy caused lord william howe and the british to fail?