Author Question: The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South a. were distributed ... (Read 40 times)

sabina · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

The riches created by the growing slave population in the American South

a. were distributed evenly among whites.
b. helped to narrow the gap between rich and poor.
c. created a serious problem with inflation.
d. were not distributed evenly among whites.
e. enabled poor whites to escape tenant farming.

Question 2

The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 included all of the following provisions except

a. the requirement that fugitive slaves be returned from Canada.
b. denial of a jury trial to runaway slaves.
c. denial of fleeing slaves' right to testify on their own behalf.
d. the penalty of imprisonment for northerners who helped slaves to escape.
e. a higher payment to the federal official responsible for determining the case of a fugitive if the official determined that the fugitive was a slave and not a free black person.