Plantation mistresses
a. were frequently assaulted by vengeful slaves.
b. were primarily responsible for controlling the plantation's male slaves.
c. frequently supported abolitionism.
d. commanded a sizable household staff of mostly female slaves.
e. were almost universally loved by their slaves.
d
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Middle-class women differed from lower-class women in that middle-class women
A) were not expected to work outside the household. B) had greater legal and political rights than lower-class women. C) were the center of the family economy. D) worked for higher wages than lower-class women. E) were encouraged to enter professions and seek higher education.
The "free soil" ideology included
A. a call to end slavery in the United States as soon as possible. B. the argument that slavery was tremendously harmful to American blacks. C. an argument for black male suffrage. D. the use of military force to suppress slavery. E. opposition to the expansion of slavery.
The Bill of Rights
A) ?were not included in the original constitution due to an oversight. B) ?provide protections for individual civil rights. C) consists of the first twelve amendments to the Constitution. D) ?constitute the only amendments proposed to state legislatures. E) ?were not ratified for twenty years after the Constitution became laws.