For Which of the Following Reasons May the South Be

question 98

Multiple Choice

For which of the following reasons may the South be considered "distinctive" in comparison to the rest of the United States in the period from 1830 to 1860?

• A) Most southerners were Protestants while most northerners were Catholics.
• B) In the South, the liberty of one race depended on the enslavement of another,
• C) The South was geographically much smaller than the North.
• D) Southerners for the most part did not participate in the westward expansion of the nation.

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Variability

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in a data set differ from the mean.

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