The answer to this question is "Civil rights and feminism"
Answer:
The excuse was religion
Explanation:
All of them had the same excuse, expand religion and God´s name, but the trueyh is that all these and other countries wanted to find GOLD, SILVER SPICES and people to work for them.
I heard they could and couldn't. But to be on the safe side, I would pick false.
In 1859 50% of the nations wealth, stocks, bonds, land, cash was in slaves owned by southerners. They lost everything. The north pay less on the south slavery was not finish and they where trying to go to the north for better jobs and freedom the south had force slaves to work.
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