-Thomas Skidmore Advocated Using Large Inheritance Taxes in His Book

question 16

Multiple Choice

-Thomas Skidmore advocated using large inheritance taxes in his book The Rights of Man to Property! in order to .

• A) return land seized from the Indians during the 1820s and 1830s
• B) abolish property requirements for suffrage
• C) grant parcels of land to free African Americans and poor whites
• D) equalize wealth that prevented a monied aristocracy

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