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fahad

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Question 1

Which of the following took place most closely after the Missouri Crisis, alarming southern slave owners?
 
  A) Nat Turner's revolt
  B) Denmark Vesey's conspiracy
  C) Gabriel Prosser's revolt
  D) publication of The Liberator

Question 2

The slave population in the American South grew after 1808 because:
 
  A) southern states continued to import millions of slaves.
  B) slave women's fertility rates exceeded slave deaths.
  C) slaves had longer life expectancies than whites.
  D) slave health improved markedly.

Question 3

Slaves from the Upper South sold down the river to the Old Southwest would most likely have traveled on what river?
 
  A) Ohio
  B) Potomac
  C) James
  D) Mississippi

Question 4

Why did Harper's Weekly publish a picture of the scarred back of a former slave named Gordon in 1863?
 
  A) to justify slavery as a positive good
  B) to show the brutality of the slave system
  C) to prove that all slaves were victims of violence
  D) to encourage more slaves to run away to Union Army lines



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Answer 1

Answer: B

Answer 2

Answer: B

Answer 3

Answer: D

Answer 4

Answer: B



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