Base your answer to question 13 on the statement

below and on your knowledge of social studies.

... The whole military force of the State is at the

service of a Mr. Suttle, a slaveholder from Virginia,

to enable him to catch a man whom he calls his

property; but not a soldier is offered to save a

citizen of Massachusetts from being kidnapped! Is

this what all these soldiers, all this training, have

been for these seventy-nine years past [since the

beginning of the American Revolution]? Have

they been trained merely to rob Mexico and carry

back fugitive slaves to their masters? ...

- Henry David Thoreau, Independence Day speech at

Framingham, Massachusetts

The author of this statement is expressing

dissatisfaction with a provision included in the

(1) Treaty of Ghent (1815)

(2) Oregon Treaty of 1846

(3) Compromise of 1850

(4) Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

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Zaiden Massey

18 September, 16:50

Base your answer to question 13 on the statement

below and on your knowledge of social studies.

... The whole military force of the State is at the

service of a Mr. Suttle, a slaveholder from Virginia,

to enable him to catch a man whom he calls his

property; but not a soldier is offered to save a

citizen of Massachusetts from being kidnapped! Is

this what all these soldiers, all this training, have

been for these seventy-nine years past [since the

beginning of the American Revolution]? Have

they been trained merely to rob Mexico and carry

back fugitive slaves to their masters? ...

- Henry David Thoreau, Independence Day speech at

Framingham, Massachusetts

The author of this statement is expressing

dissatisfaction with a provision included in the

(1) Treaty of Ghent (1815)

(2) Oregon Treaty of 1846

(3) Compromise of 1850

(4) Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

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Shania Pennington · Answer 1

The author of this statement is expressing dissatisfaction with a provision included in the " (4) Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) " which was one of the major lead ups to the Civil War.