If you were a proslavery advocate, how would you feel about the platform of the newly formed republican party?

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

If you were a proslavery advocate, how would you feel about the platform of the newly formed Republican Party?

Well, if I were a proslavery advocate, I will really be worried about the abolitionist ideas of the northerners and specifically, of the Republican Party. As an advocate of slavery, I know that as a landlord I own large plantations in the south. And this large plantation need slaves to grow crops and produce the number of crops needed to trade and be exported to Europe. Slavery is an important part of the economy of the southern states. So if Republicans want to abolish slavery, my plantation system is at high risk.

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the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)