Author Question: Before seceding from the Hapsburg Empire, the Hungarians a. abolished serfdom. b. instituted ... (Read 72 times)

joesmith1212 · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

Which of the following arguments was most likely to have been used by southerners in the 1830s and 1840s to defend the institution of slavery?

a. It is true that slavery is an evil within human society, but for economic reasons it is presently a necessaryevil.
b. Society is ordered in a particular way by the dictates of nature, and nature has ordained that blacks are bornto be slaves.
c. All whites are born to be free and equal, but all nonwhites are frowned on by God and were born to beslaves.
d. Human beings are equal in the sight of God only if they have accepted the tenets of Christianity; therefore,non-Christians may be enslaved.

Question 2

Before seceding from the Hapsburg Empire, the Hungarians

a. abolished serfdom.
b. instituted freedom of religion and the press.
c. terminated the privileges of the nobility and the Church.
d. extended the right to vote to all men who could speak some Magyar and owned some land.
e. all of the above