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SS8 MC - Abolitionists

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Question 1

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This excerpt refers to an event that occurred in Virginia in 1859.

Which action prompted the newspaper’s claim that John Brown’s raid “advanced the cause of disunion”?

Some Northerners were willing to defend the South’s right to continue slavery

Some Southerners were willing to take up arms to protest high tariffs.

Some abolitionists thought violence was necessary to end slavery.

Some people in territories needed to defend their right to popular sovereignty.