Describe the radical abolitionists' rationale against slavery
What will be an ideal response?
Consider: slavery illegal, a violation of natural rights; slavery unjust; slavery sinful, places individual's fate in the hands of another individual; slavery immoral, encourages sexual exploitation; slavery economically retrogressive, inhibits economic development of the South and encourages inefficiency of labor.
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Congressional members who aimed to protect and promote the interests of black southerners and to punish white southerners for the Civil War were called:
A) carpetbaggers. B) scalawags. C) Radical Republicans. D) Redeemers.
Anti-Jacksonians called themselves Whigs because
A) some Jacksonians had begun to call themselves Tories. B) they were strong supporters of better ties with Britain. C) it was Henry Clay's nickname. D) they accused President Jackson of acting like a monarch. E) they wanted to hearken back to revolutionary ideals.
Why did the British government grant James Oglethorpe a charter to found the colony of Georgia?
a. They thought it would be an ideal place for cultivating cotton. b. They liked the idea of establishing a colony for debtors. c. They were eager to expand the slave population of British North America. d. They were attracted to the military aspects of his proposal.
New immigrants who came to the United States in the late nineteenth century tended to __________.
A. settle in cities where large numbers of their countrymen lived B. settle in the rural South C. blend together into a melting pot D. stay in one neighborhood once they settled there