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The region where the Underground Railroad maintained safe houses was Michigan.
Let's remember that the Underground Railroad was not a railroad per se, but a group of people that helped crossed the southern lines to the Northern states, so slaves could escape from the tyranny of the owners of the large plantations of the South. It was the Quakers in the 1800s who started to form this group and helped slaves to escape.
On the other hand, Dred and Harriet Scott were two black slaves that sued for their liberty in the 1840s, claiming they had lived in a free territory. The Supreme Court decision or better known as the Dred Scott decision infuriated many people in the North and was one of the reasons for the beginning of the American Civil War.
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D. The Equal Rights Amendment
Explanation:
In “What It Would Be Like If Women Win,” from August 31, 1970, Steinem writes:
“In Women’s Lib Utopia, there will be free access to good jobs – and decent pay for the bad ones women have been performing all along, including housework. Increased skilled labor might lead to a four-hour workday, and higher wages would encourage further mechanization of repetitive jobs now kept alive by cheap labor. … Schools and universities will help to break down traditional sex roles, even when parents will not. Half the teachers will be men, a rarity now at preschool and elementary levels; girls will not necessarily serve cookies or boys hoist up the flag.”
At the time the article was written, the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) was holding a 51% majority in the political climate.
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B) He was fearful of driving away the traders who contributed to Japan's economy.
Explanation:
Tokugawa Ieyasu was a military ruler also know as shogun that ruled Japan during the early 1600s.
Before his reign as Shogun, in 1549, Christian missionaries can to Japan with the aim of converting the Japanese people to Christianity. They also came with muskets, guns and other European goods which the Japanese people had interest and wanted the buy.
Over the years the Missionaries trade expanded and they became very successful, they also involved themselves in the politics of Japan.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, seeing this he became worried, he saw the European missionaries as threats because of their involvement in Japan politics. He felt they caused trouble and were putting down the traditional beliefs of Japan but he could not send them away due to the European goods they sold to the Japanese people.
In the year 1612,Tokugawa Ieyasu became frightened and afraid of religious rebellion in Japan and he forbade Christianity in Japan.
The US did this in hope of securing the release of American hostages in Lebanon. Hope this helps! :)
Answer: President Thomas Jefferson hoped that the Embargo Act of 1807 would help the United States by demonstrating to Britain and France their dependence on American goods, convincing them to respect American neutrality and stop impressing American seamen. Instead, the act had a devastating effect on American trade.
