Directions:
    1. Fully answer each question on YOUR OWN PAPER.

    2. These questions are not simple ones and cannot be answered in a mere sentence or two.
        Give the proper space and effort to answering each one

Grading:    This will count as a QUIZ grade

1. What was the Quaker arugment for abolition?

2. Supporters of slavery used both the Bible and the Constitution as support for their position.
    Explain their arguments from each source.

3. What was the "understanding" about slavery in 1790?

4. What solutions to the slavery question were posed in the 1790s?

5. In what respect was slavery "woven into the fabric" of American society?

6. What was the southern position on slavery at the Constitutional Convention?

7. Why was a clear resolution of the slavery question avoided at the Constitutional Convention?

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