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Sumner’s description of slavery as a moral evil rather than merely a political issue reflects:

Which statement best captures the tension in Thoreau’s argument?  

Which writer most directly exposes the contradiction between the American ideal of liberty and the institution of slavery through personal experience?

Which pairing most clearly demonstrates the transformation of American ideas about individual freedom between the antebellum period and the Civil War?

Why was the Emancipation Proclamation a major turning point?

Abigail Adams’s statement that women should not be bound by laws in which they have no “voice or Representation” most directly echoes:

Brown’s speech can best be understood as challenging the legal system’s distinction between:

Banneker’s letter to Thomas Jefferson is especially significant because Banneker:  

Lincoln’s closing appeal to “the better angels of our nature” is best understood as:

Jonathan Edwards’s Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God emphasizes: