In the aftermath of the 1831 Nat Turner Rebellion, the Virginia legislature _____________.
A. approved a plan, subsequently vetoed by the governor, for the abolition of slavery.
B. approved a measure requiring all free blacks to leave the state or be enslaved.
C. began a debate on slavery that continued and grew more bitter as the years passed.
D. debated but then rejected a measure calling for the gradual abolition of slavery.
Answer: D
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