Answer to Question 1
Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Describe the role of the differing economies that produced the abolition of slavery in the northern states. The climate of the northern states prevented lucrative plantation agriculture in contrast to the South where the climate was perfect and political power became concentrated in the hands of slave holders.
2. Explain that religion played a role in abolition in the northern states through Quaker antislavery sentiment, the Enlightenment, and the First Great Awakening.
3. Outline how blacks responded in varying forms to abolition in the northern states by escaping from slavery in the South and forming black voluntary organizations and communities.
Answer to Question 2
Ideal Answer: The ideal answer should:
1. Explain the high cost for the British government in the French and Indian War that necessitated new taxes to pay for it.
2. Explain the passage of the Stamp Act as a tax on official documents and other paper products purchased in the colonies.
3. Explain how the colonists reacted to the Stamp Act with protests and petitions and violence.
4. Explain how Great Britain responded to the colonial defiance of the act by repealing it over a year later.
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