Question

Slavery was defended for many reasons in the 1800s. Which opinion best explains why some citizens of free states might support slavery?

Slaves were needed to build railroads and new cities in the west.
Escaped slaves should not be protected by the govemments of free states
New states should be able to choose whether slavery would be legal or not.
Southem agriculture was too important to the US economy to lose slave labor

Answer 1

The United States abolished slavery through the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865, in the aftermath of a great Civil War. But the effort to abolish slavery did not begin nor end in North America. Emancipation in the United States was part of a worldwide antislavery movement that had begun in the late eighteenth century and continued through the end of the nineteenth.

Answer 2

Answer: D

Southern agriculture was too important to the U.S. economy to lose slave labor.

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