The South's "positive good" argument for slavery claimed that
a. slavery was supported by the authority of both the Bible and the Constitution.
b. slavery was good for the barbarous Africans because enslavement introduced them to Christianity.
c. slaves benefited from receiving education and job training.
d. slaves were usually treated as members of the family.
e. slaves were better off than most northern wage earners.
a, b, d, e
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a. the multiparty system in Canada. b. the right of women to hold office. c. an arrangement in which the leader of the majority party becomes the Canadian government leader, as in the British Parliament. d. the Canadian authority to revoke or veto any law passed by the British Parliament. e. demands that British royalty have no legitimacy in Canada.
All of the following peoples made up northeastern Europe EXCEPT
A) Czechs. B) Poles. C) Austrians. D) Hungarians. E) Lithuanians.
__________ was a key participant in the Underground Railroad.
a. Harriet Tubman b. Frederick Douglass c. Angelina Grimké d. Harriet Beecher Stowe
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a. Toussaint L'Ouverture. b. Jacques Levant. c. Simón Bolívar. d. José de San Martín.