What statement offers the best comparison between the north and south at the beginning of the civil war?

What is the area of the trapezoid shown ?

What does the quote describe? “the closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….the shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”

In what was the 1851 indian appropriations act considered a peace plan according to the federal government