THE VIRGINIA RESOLVES ARE SIGNIFICANT BECAUSEOPERATION OF TWO POWER...

2. The Virginia Resolves are significant because

operation of two powerful forces that were

(A) they were passed to protest the Stamp

at work on the Negro’s status—the exodus

Act

and the war. Negroes migrating to the North

(B) they were based on the argument that

in great numbers, and I observed the

the colonies could not be taxed by

anomaly of a premium being put on this

Parliament because they had no repre-

element of the population that had generally

sentation in Parliament

been regarded as a burden and a handicap to

(C) they laid the groundwork for Virginia’s

the South.”

claim to western lands

The above was most probably written about

(D) in passing them, the Virginia legislature

(A) contraband going behind the Union lines

seceded from the Union

in the Civil War

(E) in passing them, Virginia agreed to

(B) movement of blacks to Northern cities

Congressional Reconstruction

during the Vietnam War

(C) exodusters