Why Could Someone Argue That the North Was Complicit in the Expansion

question 36

Multiple Choice

Why could someone argue that the North was complicit in the expansion of slavery?

• A) Many northern states had slaves at one time.
• B) Some slaves ran away to northern states.
• C) Some slaveholders were originally from the North.
• D) Northern factory demand for cotton steadily increased.

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Definitions:

MRP

Marginal Revenue Product; the additional revenue generated from employing one more unit of a resource, commonly applied in economics.

Marginal Product

The additional output resulting from the use of one more unit of a production input, holding other inputs constant.

Variable Input

A variable input is one whose amount can be adjusted in the short term to either raise or lower output levels.

MRP

Acronym for Marginal Revenue Product, which measures the addition to total revenue resulting from the sale of the output produced by one more unit of a variable input.