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By the middle decades of the 19th century, the Union comprised how many states and roughly how many people?
A24 states and 17 million people
B31 states and 23 million people
C36 states and 30 million people
D13 states and 4 million people
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. 31 states and 23 million people
1. The national territory by then stretched over forest, plain, and mountain.
2. Within those limits dwelt 23 million people in a Union comprising 31 states.
3. Industry boomed in the east while agriculture flourished in the midwest and south.
_Source: "An Outline of American History" (USIA, 1990, public domain), Ch 5 "Sectional Conflict"_
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