<span>Before 1830 - The South defended slavery as a necessary evil. They argued that the emergence of cotton as the most important cash crop in the country made slaves necessary. Instead of defending slavery as a necessary evil, they began to defend slavery as a "positive good."</span>
One reason that northerners lost interest in Reconstruction was because "<span>A. Northerners were focused on the political corruption plaguing the nation," since this was during the Progressive Era. </span>
In common sense, Paine suggested that American independence from Britain was an absolute necessity, since he thought it was absurd for such a small island to rule over such a vast territory.
He NAACP opposed racist views that terrorized and segregated people of color. They were an intellectual group that help to bring about fairer education (Brown vs. Board of Education, 1957) kinder housing and anti-lynching, They felt all humans should be treated with justice, kindness and equality and lobbied to foster positive change in America. (Thank goodness they brought awareness to so much cruelty and injustice. It still makes me cringe to think the U.S. was and still is so uninformed about human issues.)<span>
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The answer i believe is the letter d
