Which of the following is not a reason slavery continued to be a divisive issue in the United States?

A.Slave owners brought slaves further west into new territories, seeing them as property.
B.The Constitution delayed making provisions for ending slavery at a time it was growing.
C.Northern states threatened to not ratify the Constitution unless slavery was banned.
D.Early abolitionists and slave owners held different views of slavery and freedom.

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Apart from “liberty,” ____________ was the word most used in the late 18th century in legal and political literature.
A.tolerance
b.slavery
c.equality
d.suffrage

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“To judge from the conduct of the opposite parties, we shall be led to conclude that they will mutually hope to evince the justness of their opinions, and to increase the number of their converts by the loudness of their declamations and the bitterness of their invectives. An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power and hostile to the principles of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good.”
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787

Which of the following accurately reflects the excerpt?

Hamilton is a Federalist arguing that the Constitution is necessary to quiet the radical elements in society.

or

Hamilton is a Federalist arguing that those against the Constitution risk the survival of the new nation.