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A speaker might use a rhetorical question to give the speech or essay more depth and to make it so that the people become intrigued.
The anwser is <span>D. The House of Representatives
because it says the answer in the fist line of the passage </span>
It is D. The American Civil War was an extended battle engagement fought between the Confederacy and the Union in the nineteenth century.