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Question 1

For which of the following reasons did southern planters voice strenuous objections to ratification of the Jay Treaty?
 
  a. The treaty contained no provision for British evacuation of their forts in the Northwest.
  b. The treaty contained no provision to compensate owners of slaves who left with the British army at the endof the Revolutionary War.
 c. The treaty contained no provision to deal with claims relating to American merchant ships captured by theBritish during the Revolutionary War.
 d. The treaty contained no provision for easing restrictions on American trade to England or the West Indies.

Question 2

Hume's skepticism challenged modern science by
 
  a. insisting on more rigorous experimentation to achieve certainty.
  b. requiring that all scientific knowledge be expressed mathematically.
  c. arguing that gravity is not a force but a quality of all matter.
  d. denying that natural law  if it exists  can be grasped.
  e. insisting that action, not knowledge, is what matters.



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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