Awildlife researcher weighed all the raccoons that were trapped in suburban neighborhoods before they were released back into the wild. the researcher used this data to conclude that the raccoons in the state were getting heavier.

what error did the researcher make?
the sample is biased because it only weighed raccoons that were trapped in suburban neighborhoods.
the researcher should not have released the raccoons back into the wild.
the sample is biased because the averages of the weights were not calculated.
the researcher should have weighed other animals besides raccoons.

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

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