Which of the following statements about the domestic slave trade and slave families is MOST accurate?
a. The general reluctance of slaveholders to divide slave families indicates that slavery in the U.S. was a “precapitalist” system.
b. One of the main factors helping to preserve slave families was the economic fact that slave traders could make more money by selling families as a unit than they could by selling each slave individually.
c. As avowed capitalists, slaveholders regularly boasted of the profits to be made by breaking apart families and selling slaves individually as the need arose.
d. The economic needs of slaveholders typically outweighed their paternalistic reluctance to break apart families.
d. The economic needs of slaveholders typically outweighed their paternalistic reluctance to break apart families.
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A) his cabinet members strongly urged him to do so. B) the French threatened to attack American shipping unless he did so. C) he mistakenly believed that France was no longer seizing American ships. D) he had pledged to do so during his election campaign.
With what philosophical school is Seneca most closely associated?
a. Skepticism b. Cynicism c. Platonism d. Epicureanism e. Stoicism
Cities in the Iron Age were
a. located in river valleys. b. formed in large groups for protection from invaders. c. smaller and fortified. d. politically autonomous. e. struggling to deal with a massive increase in population caused by constant warfare.
Who was the last imperial power in Africa to realize they could no long afford their empire?
A. Portugal B. Belgium C. France D. Britain