2. PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?
A. "Somehow slavery would manage to survive the revolutionary era, but great
changes were brought to this peculiar institution nevertheless." (Paragraph 1)
B. "As the cotton industry grew and slavery became more and more entrenched
across the American South, opposition to it also grew." (Paragraph 5)
C. "The new Abolitionists thought differently. They saw slavery as a blight on
America that must be brought to an end immediately" (Paragraph 9)
D. "While northern churches rallied to the Abolitionist cause, the churches of the
South used the Bible to defend slavery." (Paragraph 10)