Describe the tensions between the Northern and the Southern United States that led to the Civil War?

The Civil War in the United States began in 1861, after decades of simmering tensions between northern and southern states over slavery, states’ rights and westward expansion.

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the answer is a. since they were a huge producer of cotton and wanted the most money for it.

this means that germany had to pay the allied countries. reparations are/is essentially payment for something that they have done wrong, so after ww1, germany was forced to pay reparations so they could replenish the allied countries resources' that they had lost during the war.