Open Pay Systems Create a More Egalitarian Environment

question 29

True/False

Open pay systems create a more egalitarian environment.

Understand the economic importance of cotton and slavery to the national and international markets before the Civil War.

Analyze the complicity of the North in the expansion of slavery due to economic demands.

Recognize the significant internal slave trade within the United States from 1820 to 1860.

Examine the differing impacts and dependencies on slavery between northern and southern states.

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