Why Did the Rise of the Market Revolution and Westward

question 80

Multiple Choice

Why did the rise of the market revolution and westward expansion make life worse for African-Americans?

• A) The rise of the Cotton Kingdom reduced legal slavery dramatically, and slave trading became an underground business in which traders forced enslaved people to march to the Deep South.
• B) When traders and owners moved enslaved people west, they destroyed family ties and long-standing communities.
• C) The decline in slavery meant that free blacks were forced to find their own source of income, which they had no experience doing.
• D) Federal law barred free blacks from skilled job opportunities.
• E) Travel fees grew too expensive for black families to afford finding economic opportunity in the West.

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