How did many europeans justify their enslavement of africans? a. by promising to release them after ten years of servitude b. they said slaves would have a better life in the americas c. by granting land to all slaves once they reached the americas d. by believing in religious ideas that supported the enslavement of non-christian people

D

that if a slave was non-Christian, then slaveholders were civilizing and Christianizing” them for their own benefit. And slaveholders were upholding their God-given position as Christians to enslave pagans and infidels. It was all a part of God’s plan.

the national congress's powers over the states were specific and definite: it had the sole power to negotiate treaties, declare war, and make peace. all powers not granted to congress were reserved for state governments. congress had no power to levy taxes, for example.