<span>In the expert from John Muir's "The America Forests," which was feature in Atlantic Monthly in August 1897, the trees that he is describing are "more than three thousand years [old]." Moreover, they existed "long before" Christ's time. They survived "...drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempest and floods..."</span>
Out of the following descriptions, the best one to characterizes the North the years leading up to the Civil War is industrial, urban, and anti-slavery.
The cities are the most culturally diverse areas in Latin America.
B) there was no separation of powers
