Author Question: All of the following are true statements about Quakers except a. they were shrewd businessmen. ... (Read 45 times)

cookcarl · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

All of the following are true statements about Quakers except

a. they were shrewd businessmen.
b. they built simple meetinghouses and believed they were all children in the sight of God.
c. they advocated passive resistance and turning the other cheek against their enemies.
d. they swore solemn oaths of faith and devotion.
e. they trusted Indians in Pennsylvania as babysitters.

Question 2

Cotton became important to the prosperity of the North as well as the South because

a. about two-thirds of the southern cotton crop was sold to New England textile mills.
b. northern merchants handled the shipping of southern cotton.
c. cotton accounted for about half the value of all United States exports after 1840.
d. northern farmers profited from selling their foodstuffs to feed southern slaves.
e. northern investors controlled the cotton futures markets.