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Sorry And here's your smoke du jour brought to you

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by punting the best way to get rid of a

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problem I'll give this excerpt a read no state shall

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be agent booth All right And now the question in

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the articles of confederation the issue of slavery was what

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and hear your complaint settled not settled are our biggest

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clue Here is the date that the articles of confederation

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was written so remember that year cell fourteen eighty one

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as we check out these answers to the articles of

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confederation a settle the issue of slavery by allowing the

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practice but prohibiting the importation of new slaves when i'll

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let see international slave training wasn't banned until eighteen o

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eight that's almost thirty years later is that eliminates a

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on what about b They settled slavery by establishing that

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all new states would be free states Well does the

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missouri compromise ring about it should because that eighteen twenty

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act attempted to resolve the issue of whether or not

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new states would allow slavery and even that didn't fix

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things In fact it took another forty five years for

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the government to settle things once and for all it

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was bloody when they did so it's not be either

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So then maybe the issue of slavery was c not

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settled by the articles but was later settled by the

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ratification of the constitution Well that sure would have saved

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everyone a lot of trouble down the road But the

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constitution also failed to clarify the government's position on slavery

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that knocks out see as well which means that slavery

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was d not settled in the articles and continued to

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be an issue in later years And did it ever

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Slavery was the giant elephant in the room in the

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early days of the country Nobody wanted to talk about

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it because it always ended in a big disagreement So

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rather than talk about the problem they just ignored it

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So the correct answer is d and we all know

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that when you ignore your problems well they just go

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away right Um

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