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John Calhoun's argument in the excerpt provides evidence for which of the following trends during the first half of the 19th century in the United States?
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Oh Okay A pushers We've got another passage for you
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A long one here So we'll just do a light
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skin Madeline and union killings as friends you know render
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blood because slavery is going But I take higher ground
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holding president slavery a positive good from John Calhoun Yes
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You can imagine what this is about are the question
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John Calhoun's argument in the excerpt provides evidence for which
- 00:30
of the following trends during the first half of the
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nineteenth century in the US John Calhoun was a famous
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Southern pro slavery political theorist and politician He strongly opposed
- 00:45
abolition and rooted for the expansion of slavery to the
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new American territories in the West In this excerpt Calhoun
- 00:51
defends the slavery system He believed that slavery was a
- 00:54
positive good because it benefitted the United States economy and
- 00:58
he even claimed that slavery benefited The slaves Notice how
- 01:02
he maintains that the South will not cannot surrender our
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institutions and even suggest that abolition couldn't be achieved without
- 01:09
drenching the country in blood On boy he was right
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about that one thing Not much else So the answer
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there is d the Southern pro slavery Let me not
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think too hard about human rights movement Well the northern
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abolitionist movement and like letter eh There was the antagonised
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of the Southern pro slavery movement So much so that
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slavery debate was well one of the main instigators of
- 01:31
the American Civil War Even women participated in the northern
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abolitionist movement by joining female abolitionist group So see is
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right there Most Southerners did not own slaves but they're
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cotton based economy still benefited from slavery For that reason
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although rich planters were the main slaveholders There wasn't a
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Southern abolitionist movement even among the poorer classes so give
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her to be there as well so it's d the 00:01:53.21 --> [endTime] southern pro slavery movement on anti thinking hard movement
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