Answer: <u><em>Bush tried to play down the incident with Congress and the public in order to maintain an alliance with China on foreign trade and investment.</em></u>
Explanation: I just took the test and this is the correct answer...
The orders were to take everything that they can, and burn and ruin everything that they can't take. The idea was to destroy infrastructure completely so as to weaken the southern population and the southern support for the war. They would burn farms and pillage everything leaving nothing standing.
<h2>Answer:</h2><h3><u><em>Artillery bombardments</em></u></h3><h2>Explanation:</h2><h3><em><u>Artillery bombardments were designed to destroy enemy guns, cut through dense barbed wire and blast men from the trenches.</u></em></h3>
<span>Assuming that this is referring to the same list of options that was posted before with this question, <span>the correct response would be "none," since they all have to do with the elections and/or words of Lincoln, which had a very big impact on secession. </span></span>