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1.The North had a more diversified economy based on free labor.
2.In the North, the antislavery movement had slowly been gaining strength since the 1830's.
3. Jobs
The New England colonies did whaling, had rocky land; so it was harder to farm, they built ships and small-scale factories.
Yes, I do think so.
The reason for this is that I think it would be likely that people born and raised in America would feel that Great Britain, which was far away and did not understand Americans' needs and situations, should not rule over them. So I feel that a similar struggle for independence would have happened anyway.
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C sounds most accurate, however, most of the European countries were going to go to war regardless of colonies and such, the war was essentially unavoidable as everyone had gotten a bunch of new "toys" (i.e. new weapons) and as Europe does, they wanted to test them out on one another.
Explanation:
The US did this in hope of securing the release of American hostages in Lebanon. Hope this helps! :)