What did the confederacy try to do before the civil war began?

a. take control of u. s. government property throughout the south
b. ask france and great britain to them in a war with the union
c. build forts along the ohio river in order to protect its border
d. require all men in the south to enlist in the confederate army

i was thinking b but i want to know for sure

character development is the internal change an individual, a fictional one in this case, undergoes through the course of a story as a result of the conflict or conflicts that person encounters. options 1,2 and 5 don't offer much of this since they mostly just describe the momentary actions and reactions of edna pontellier. in kate chopin's the awakening we first meet edna as someone in a sort of semi-conscious state and completely unaware of her own feelings and ambitions. as the story progresses she becomes more self aware of these ambitions and gaining also the confidence to act on them on quotes 3 and (mostly on) 4 we begin to see these changes on her.

so much for this