SAT US History Practice Question
Why did the Northern delegates allow the removal from the Declaration of Independence a passage referring to the slave trade as a "cruel war against human nature"?
- A.They supported the slave trade.
- B.They were slave owners from large plantations.
- C.They did not like the implication that they were slaves of the king of Great Britain.
- D.They thought the Southerners would not vote for independence if that passage was not removed.
- E.They did not believe that this was the right time to free the slaves.
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