SAT US History Practice Question

The Civil War has been called the "Second American Revolution" because

1. A.it made the United States totally independent of Great Britain, which, for the first time, accepted its former colony's political and economic independence.
2. B.it eliminated the old economic system of slavery and set the country on the road to rapid and unhindered economic growth.
3. C.the methods of fighting were directly inherited from the war for independence.
4. D.Abraham Lincoln has been called the second George Washington because of his statesmanship and his military leadership.
5. E.the problems of race, the fundamental contradiction in American society, were solved.