United States History Question of the Day


Slavery's growth in the 19th century paralleled the expansion of cotton as a cash crop
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Question 0929:

Who was the abolitionist leader and publisher of The Liberator who referred to the U.S. Constitution as  "the most bloody and heaven-daring arrangement ever made by men for the continuance and protection of a system of the most atrocious villany ever exhibited on earth?"

(A) Theodore Weld
(B)  William Lloyd Garrison
(C)  Lewis Tappan
(D)  Elijah P. Lovejoy
(E)  John Quincy Adams

Answer and explanation