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AP U.S. History 4.5 Period 5: 1848-1877. The sentiment of Calhoun's excerpt reflects a continuation of which of the following trends?
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- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by forced
- 00:07
labor sorry sitting on her stomach isn't going to make the baby come out any [Woman in labor with baby on her stomach]
- 00:11
faster...all right check out the following passage...[mumbling]
- 00:35
The sentiment of Calhoun's excerpt reflects a
- 00:37
continuation of which of the following suckish trends and here are your potential
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- 00:42
answers....
- 00:46
morally justifying slavery this guy must have been a big hit on [John walks onto field of slaves working]
- 00:51
the plantation all right let's start by taking a look at option B Calhoun does
- 00:55
say that there has never existed a deathly and civilized society in which
- 01:00
one portion of the community did not in point of fact live on the labor of the
- 01:05
other however he doesn't mention anything about southern culture, yep no [scanning excerpt]
- 01:09
mention of collards or country music or hootenannies insight oh sorry B
- 01:14
doesn't look like you could sit at the cool kids table this week, let's take a look
- 01:17
at D based on the title of this passengers source material we could [Answers D, A and C sitting at a table]
- 01:20
probably assume option D is not the correct answer but hey maybe he was
- 01:24
being sarcastic.. yeah we didn't think so well rule out D. someone that gung-ho
- 01:29
about forced labor wouldn't be a big fan of emancipation let's try A manifest
- 01:34
destiny was the belief that white Americans were meant to settle the
- 01:37
entire expanse of the country followers of this philosophy believed they were
- 01:41
entitled to land because America was destined to be great while Calhoun
- 01:45
probably had a lot in common with the manifest destiny club his speech doesn't [Calhoun at the Manifest Destiny Club]
- 01:49
reflect their goals except for the racist parts of course that leaves us
- 01:53
with answer C; pro-slavery politicians often use anything they
- 01:57
could to defend the practice in the passage Calhoun mentions physical and
- 02:01
intellectual differences between the races in order to justify making one
- 02:05
subservient to the other yeah whatever helps you sleep at night [Calhoun talking to slaves in the plantation]
- 02:09
their John...
- 02:13
you
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