Author Question: The issue of runaway slaves was important to most southerners because a. the South was losing a ... (Read 72 times)

bobbysung · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

The issue of runaway slaves was important to most southerners because

a. the South was losing a significant and irreplaceable portion of its labor force.
b. the overwhelming success of the Underground Railroad posed critical and immediate threat to the southern way of life.
c. while the overall loss of property was relatively insignificant, the loss of honor and the passing of moral judgments by northerners were felt more.
d. escaped slaves would likely organize a black army to stage armed rebellions against white southern planters and their plantations.
e. escaped slaves would travel North or to Canada and quickly undermine the legitimacy of southerners' racial superiority theories among political leaders of the North and the South.

Question 2

Which of the following was not among the issues that concerned southerners in 1849-1850?

a. The political balance in the Senate might tip against them.
b. The admission of California as a free state might set a precedent for Utah and New Mexico.
c. Northern abolitionists were agitating against slavery in the District of Columbia.
d. The loss of runaway slaves through the Underground Railroad.
e. There was a growing chance that a constitutional amendment would abolish slavery.