Why Was the Colonization Movement Involving the Resettlement of Blacks

question 30

Multiple Choice

Why was the colonization movement involving the resettlement of blacks to Liberia largely ineffective?

• A) African Americans did not trust the motives of white supporters of colonization.
• B) Slaveholders feared that the resettlement of African Americans to western Africa would financially ruin the Upper South and the border states.
• C) Northern shipping companies did not have the financial resources to relocate African Americans to western Africa.
• D) European powers threatened to declare war on the United States because they saw the colonization movement as an encroachment on their sphere of influence.

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