At the time of the Civil War, the area of the United States still defined as “unsettled” was

a. less than 10 percent of the whole.
b. about a quarter of the whole.
c. about one-half of the whole.
d. nearly three-quarters of the whole.
e. none of these choices.


ANS: C

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