Answer: D) to protect their families from sale
Aside from financial reasons, why did some black people become slaveholders?
A) to demonstrate the corrupt nature of the institution
B) to protect themselves from sale
C) to ingratiate themselves with whites
D) to protect their families from sale
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In the 1840s and 1850s, in the Far West, the response by white Americans to the Chinese
A. was one of consistent hostility. B. moved from initial acceptance to gradual hostility. C. moved from initial hostility to gradual acceptance. D. was one of consistent acceptance. E. depended mainly on whether the white American was pro-slavery or antislavery.
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Which Supreme Court decision struck down an 1879 state law prohibiting the purchase and use of contraceptive devices by couples as a violation of their constitutional right to privacy?
-Roe v. Wade (1973) -Furman v. Georgia (1972) -Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) -Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
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