Answer:
A. a battle journal written by an officer of the Confederate army
Explanation:
A battle journal written by an officer of the Confederate army would be the most reliable source to collect and transmit information on the Civil War.
Journals are records which are actually written during the time the action was taken place. So, a Confederate army putting down the experiences of a Civil War will be reliable because he is writing out of his experiences. Journals are credible because you can verify the facts from their original sources as well as it is enriched with facts and truths. Journals offer clarity.
C. Chief Justice Taney was son of a slave holding family
The Native American culture that built connected stone homes was
B. The Ancestral Puebloans.
Ancestral Puebloans in the American Southwest, were one of the four major prehistoric archaeological traditions in this region. The Ancestral Puebloans are best known for stone and earth dwellings, although the first ancestral pueblo homes were based on traditional pit houses. They built apartment like structures which were made of diverse materials like mud and stone, or were carved into the sides of the canyon walls.
The area in which these constructions appeared is referred to as: Oasisamerica a word which defines pre-Columbian southwestern North America. The culture has its center in the Colorado Plateau, it extends from central New Mexico to southern Nevada.
The word "pueblo" in Spanish means town or village. The first Spanish explorers, saw the ancient dwellings and named them "pueblo". The Navajo people who now live in part of this territory referred to its ancient inhabitants as Anaasazi which means: ancestors of our enemies. Other cultures had other names to describe this ancient civilization.
