The Confederation faced problems abroad as well as at home. American merchant ships in the
Mediterranean:
a. made no profits because there was too much competition
b. were often raided by Barbary pirate vessels
c. had to pay the British Navy to protect them from pirates
d. were declared unseaworthy by the British
B
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. kept blacks in bondage to work as laborers for the British military. b. envisioned blacks as an important supply of soldiers. c. offered freedom to slaves who left their masters in the hope of disrupting colonial farming operations. d. required compensation for slaveowners whose slaves escaped.
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