The correct answer is A) It's government was well established.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, the American government has had the same structure for over a little less than a century. Whereas the Confederacy declared themselves free from the Union and created their own form of government that was extremely inexperienced. By the time the Civil War started, the Confederates had a government that had been in place for less than a year.
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The answer is choice 4 "the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France could lead to war with Spain"
