Why did so many slaveholders in the Upper South sell their slaves into the internal slave trade in the first half of the nineteenth century?
a. They had lost faith in slavery as an institution.
b. Such sales were enormously profitable.
c. High taxes forced them to do so.
d. They had grown increasingly fearful of slave uprisings.
b. Such sales were enormously profitable.
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a. Shia Muslim. b. Hindu. c. Sikh. d. Sunni Muslim.
The world's first antislavery society was founded by
a. Thomas Jefferson. b. Quakers in Philadelphia. c. Puritans in New England. d. Catholics in Maryland. e. the Congregational church.
According to Map 6-6, which of the following groups did not invade the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries?
a. Vandals b. Slavs c. Lombards d. Franks
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A. agricultural quotas B. conscription into the king's army C. lack of response during the plague D. increased taxation to pay for wars E. lack of trade opportunities for peasants