the answer is b, a lot of people loved rnb so there hope this helps.
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Some negative things people will try to do to persuade others to join their friend group is: lying to your face to make it seem like they are cool or to think they are better than most people. Another horrible thing they will do is steal stuff from you and blame it on someone else. Just to make you join their horrible group, and being friends with liars and stealers. They cheat you out of your emotions, they peer pressure you, they make you feel bad. These are all negative things people could/would do to you to make you guys become friends.
Explanation:
Since it sparked a public scandal, you can think to how people feel about scandals. After getting more info about the Petrov Affair, people were probably felt angry, betrayed, and shocked. (Probably mostly shocked, and maybe some even began to form a prejudice against Russians?)
To help you could see if you could find any quotes about it, on how people felt from maybe news articles or something. You can also go on the history channel's website.
Hope this helped! Good luck!!
Mainly because it toughened-up the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing official slave-catchers to hunt down runaways.
This recruited many new Abolitionists, and caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to write 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'.