Author Question: Of the following, which best represents the political uncertainty surrounding the future of slavery ... (Read 67 times)

xroflmao · **on:** Jul 9, 2018

Of the following, which best represents the political uncertainty surrounding the future of slavery in the United States?

a. Battle of New Orleans
b. Defeat of the Wilmot Proviso
c. Election of Andrew Jackson
d. Louisiana Purchase
e. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo

Question 2

In 1837, John C. Calhoun became the first to defend slavery as

a. a necessary evil.
b. a positive good.
c. critical to the economy of the South.
d. inevitable.
e. the mark of a powerful empire.