39 Study the diagram and answer the question that follows.
Expansion of the
transatlantic
slave trade
?
Use of slavery
in agriculture
Colonial
production of
cash crops
Which phrase BEST completes this diagram?
A Development of labor unions
B Increased enlistment in the military
C Construction of roads and railroads
D Increased profits for plantation owners
40 Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.
The declared purpose of the compact of Union from which we have
withdrawn was “to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility,
provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity;”
and when, in the judgment of the sovereign States now
composing this Confederacy, it had . . . ceased to answer the
ends for which it was established, a peaceful appeal to the
ballot-box declared that so far as they were concerned, the
government created by that compact should cease to exist.
—President Jefferson Davis, inaugural address, February 18, 1861
How did President Abraham Lincoln react to the idea expressed in Jefferson Davis’s inaugural
address?
F Lincoln stated that the argument by the South to leave the Union was unjustified.
G Lincoln called on the U.S. Supreme Court to make a ruling on the legality of secession.
H Lincoln believed the reasoning to leave the Union was protected by the Constitution.
J Lincoln prepared to amend the Constitution in order to appease the Southern states.
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