"A. It was based on ideas and reforms proposed <span>earlier by the Progressive Party" and "B. It established pensions and benefits for the elderly, children, and the handicapped" are both true. </span>
As president it is compulsory to give the State of the Union address regularly. This is stipulated in Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, requiring the President to periodically "give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient."
The buffalo war represented a clash between environmental and social issues because it was regarding the slaughter of the last wild buffaloes that was present in America. The environmentalists were against the slaughter, while the social issue that was created by the buffaloes was the spreading of a disease that people thought was effecting other livestock's.<span />