Author Question: Regarding the issue of slavery, the Constitution (a) denounced it as being inconsistent with the ... (Read 53 times)

Beheh · **on:** Jun 30, 2018

Regarding the issue of slavery, the Constitution

(a) denounced it as being inconsistent with the rights of man and called for its eventual elimination, though it did not specify clearly how or when this was to be done.
(b) gave slavery legitimacy and support.
(c) made no mention of slavery, with the hope, apparently, that the individual states would deal with it if they saw it as a problem.
(d) required that the slave trade be immediately banned with all slavery to be abandoned in twenty years.

Question 2

Between the 1921 recession and 1929, the U.S. economy was described as healthy. Which of the following changes in economic indicators is correctly stated and supports this claim?

(a) Real Gross Domestic Product (RGDP) increased per capita
(b) There were increases in real income but they were more
unequally distributed
(c) Consumer spending on credit increased dramatically
(d) There was a decline in total building construction