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AP U.S. History 4.5 Period 5: 1848-1877. The sentiment of Calhoun's excerpt reflects a continuation of which of the following trends?

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00:04

And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by forced

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labor sorry sitting on her stomach isn't going to make the baby come out any [Woman in labor with baby on her stomach]

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faster...all right check out the following passage...[mumbling]

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The sentiment of Calhoun's excerpt reflects a

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continuation of which of the following suckish trends and here are your potential

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answers....

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morally justifying slavery this guy must have been a big hit on [John walks onto field of slaves working]

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the plantation all right let's start by taking a look at option B Calhoun does

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say that there has never existed a deathly and civilized society in which

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one portion of the community did not in point of fact live on the labor of the

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other however he doesn't mention anything about southern culture, yep no [scanning excerpt]

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mention of collards or country music or hootenannies insight oh sorry B

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doesn't look like you could sit at the cool kids table this week, let's take a look

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at D based on the title of this passengers source material we could [Answers D, A and C sitting at a table]

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probably assume option D is not the correct answer but hey maybe he was

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being sarcastic.. yeah we didn't think so well rule out D. someone that gung-ho

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about forced labor wouldn't be a big fan of emancipation let's try A manifest

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destiny was the belief that white Americans were meant to settle the

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entire expanse of the country followers of this philosophy believed they were

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entitled to land because America was destined to be great while Calhoun

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probably had a lot in common with the manifest destiny club his speech doesn't [Calhoun at the Manifest Destiny Club]

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reflect their goals except for the racist parts of course that leaves us

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with answer C; pro-slavery politicians often use anything they

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could to defend the practice in the passage Calhoun mentions physical and

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intellectual differences between the races in order to justify making one

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subservient to the other yeah whatever helps you sleep at night [Calhoun talking to slaves in the plantation]

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their John...

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you

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