The law that states that rock layers closest to the surface are the youngest rock is the law of original horizontality law of superposition law of original lateral continuity law of gravity and oppositional force law of cross-cutting relationships

The correct answer is B) law of superposition.

The law that states that rock layers closest to the surface are the youngest rock is the law of superposition.

One of the most important principles in Geology, the study of the rocks on planet Eart- is the Law of Superposition. It says that layers of rock that are at the very top are younger than the ones at the bottom. That is how geologists study the years of the rock and the era they belonged to. Other important geological laws studied by Geologists are the Law of Lateral Continuity and the Law of Original Horizontality.

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.