Answer: to support reconstruction efforts in southern states
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The correct answer is "false."
It is false that prior to nationalism natural boundaries were what divided states.
The concept of nativism was developed in the 1600s by Hugo Grotius in the times of the Eight Years War when the Netherlands fought against Spain for Independence.
Nativism was the nationalistic movement that tried to defend the ideas of people in a certain region or territory, favoring their own culture, traditions, and belief systems over the other territories. In some cases, natural barriers helped to limit or separate territories in Europe but that was not the general case.
Nativism defended the concept of a region's sovereignty to protect the territory against the influence of other regions' ideas or forms of government.
The correct answer is B) to gather, test, and explain.
<em>The goal of the scientific method developed by Bacon and Descartes was to gather, test, and explain.</em>
The scientific method consists of systematic observation of phenomena, elaborate hypothesis, measurement or collecting data, making experiments to test data and finally elaborate conclusions. In order to have scientific theories or prove something that can be demonstrated, you have to use the scientific method. You test, experiment and have a determined result, once, twice, an many times. So yes, the goal of the scientific method developed by Bacon and Descartes was to gather, test, and explain.