Ahistorian would like to assess the historical contingency between many factors that may or may not have contributed to the south's decision to secede from the union before the civil war. which of the following actions would he take to best apply this historical thinking skill?

analyze conversations between southern leaders to determine which arguments for secession they used.

connect the popular southern ideology of secession with similar historical ideas during different eras.

create a thesis arguing in favor of a particular interpretation of the civil war's causes.

compare the factors leading up to the civil war with factors that caused other major crises in american history.

Adirect democracy is similar to a representative democracy because both forms of government a. have leaders with unlimited powers. b. are led by a single ruler. c. allow citizens to vote in elections. d. do not protect the rights of the citizens.

Read a report of the paris medical faculty from 1348 about the plague. we can say that the main cause of this pestilence was and is the configuration of the heavens. in 1345, at 1: 00 in the afternoon of march 20th, there was a major conjunction of three planets in the constellation of aquarius. this conjunction, along with others like it and the eclipse caused a deadly corruption of the air around us. what is the most likely reason this document would be important to a historian’s study of the black death? a) it shows the importance of astronomy in medicine today. b) it shows how medicine once differed in paris and london. c) it shows how the plague’s cause was interpreted in the past. d) it shows the desperation to find a cause of the black death.

Why did president wilson want the us to provide leadership at the end of wwi