The Key Idea Behind the Scientific Method Is

question 65

Multiple Choice

The key idea behind the scientific method is

• A) the use of intuition in testing theories.
• B) an appeal to supernatural explanations when natural explanations have not yet been found for a phenomenon.
• C) the testing of ideas through controlled observations and experiments.
• D) unbridled speculation about the world.

Understand the economic importance of cotton and slavery to the national and international markets before the Civil War.

Analyze the complicity of the North in the expansion of slavery due to economic demands.

Recognize the significant internal slave trade within the United States from 1820 to 1860.

Examine the differing impacts and dependencies on slavery between northern and southern states.

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