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charchew

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on: Jul 9, 2018
What contributed to the renewed profitability of slavery in the 1790s?
 
  a. Increasing demand for tobacco
  b. Invention of the cotton gin
  c. Kansas-Nebraska Act
  d. Missouri Compromise
  e. Reintroduction of the international slave trade

Question 2

The price of slaves was declining in the 1780s because
 
  a. of a prevailing sense that slavery was immoral.
  b. state legislatures had regulated the prices of slaves.
  c. the cotton industry was growing.
  d. the federal government had passed several anti-slavery laws.
  e. there was a downturn in the tobacco market.


JYan

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Reply #1 on: Jul 9, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANS: B

Answer to Question 2

ANS: E


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