Which of the Following Did the Union Congress Accomplish During

question 88

Multiple Choice

Which of the following did the Union Congress accomplish during the Civil War?

• A) a comprehensive ban on foreign immigration, especially from Ireland and other countries that tended to fight for the Confederacy
• B) a law that required western settlers to move back East to support the war effort by working in factories
• C) the approval of the transcontinental railroad and the raising of tariff rates to encourage economic development
• D) a major decrease in income taxes to cut down on the widespread poverty of wartime and bolster individual families
• E) a refusal to support general "agriculture and mechanic arts" in favor of focusing strictly on revamping the cotton industry in the North

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