Imagine you are a citizen of 1860 America. Of all of the events in recent years that might be seen as a cause to the Civil War, which event would you argue was the most detrimental to the Union? Explain why.

What could have been done to stop the illegal voting? what about the violence?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

How did geography influence the development of the byzantine empire?