unit 10 sentences

Before the Civil War, many northerners __________ slavery as a terrible evil, but few wanted to go to war because of it.

• condemned

• abolished

Once the war began, however, many in the North argued that the time had come to ______ slavery once and for all.

• visual

• abolish

• dictator

Abraham Lincoln's enemies called him a ________ because he exercised so much power during the war.

• dictator

• brittle

• condemn

Illustrators and photographers accompanied Union troops during the some of the war's bloodiest campaigns, leaving us an important ________ record of the horrors experienced by the soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

• dictator

• visual

• expand

• prey

Some African Americans who have ________ from slave families have passed along dramatic stories of their ancestors' experiences.

• descended

• expanded

• abolished

Without enough water, plant fibers dry out and become ______.

• appeal

• famine

• brittle

If too many plants die, insects have no food, and the birds and animals that ______ on insects then lose their food supply, too.

• brittle

• fmaine

• expand

• prey

The threat of _____ can drive animals great distances in search of food.

• famine

• appeal

• thrifty

• protable

If these animals do not _______ their hunting area, they too will starve.

• appeal

• expand

• thrifty

It would help our teacher a lot to have a laptop, a ______ computer, that she could take back and forth between school and her home.

• portable

• visual

• condemn

• appeal