Answer: c. was charged with trying to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
In the years leading up to the Civil War, the South continued to fall behind the North in all of the following except "military leadership," since the South contained some of the greatest generals of all time, such as Robert E. Lee.
The French who had direct contact with the Americans were able to successfully implement Enlightenment ideas into a new political system. The National Assembly in France even used the American Declaration of Independence as a model when drafting the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen in 1789
