Author Question: The southern demand that slavery be allowed to expand into the territories seems to have been ... (Read 57 times)

plus1 · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

What best describes the status of women in Mussolini's Fascist Italy?

a. Women were coerced into factory work to aid industrial production.
b. Women were regarded as equal to men in social status.
c. Women were encouraged to be homemakers and discouraged from working.
d. Women were aided by the government's emphasis on birth control.
e. Women were required under pain of imprisonment to join the Black Shirts.

Question 2

The southern demand that slavery be allowed to expand into the territories seems to have been motivated by the

a. expectation that slavery would be even more profitable in the West than in the South.
b. fear that free territories would tip the balance of power in the Senate against the South and slaveholdingstates.
c. belief that expansion was necessary to allow the profitable sale of surplus southern slaves.
d. assumption of southern politicians that they should put forward extreme positions as a tactic in politicalbargaining with the North.