Question

When the Civil War broke out in the United States, most countries in Europe and Latin America

a. relied on slaves to plant and pick their crops.
b. had never relied on slaves.
c. had laws against slavery.
d. used slave labor in their factories.

Answer 1

When the Civil War broke out in the United States, most countries in Europe and Latin America "c. had laws against slavery," since the United States was one of the last nations to outlaw the institution of slavery.

Answer 2

The correct option is "c. had laws against slavery."

• During the first months of the war of the independence of Mexico, on the instructions of Miguel Hidalgo, José María Anzorena, Ignacio López Rayón and José María Morelos, various groups were published abolishing slavery. This ideal of the insurgents was reaffirmed in the Decree against slavery, gabelas and sealed paper, the constitutional elements and the feelings of the nation. With the war consummated and the independence of the new nation consolidated, the old insurgents Guadalupe Victoria and Vicente Guerrero ratified the abolition of slavery by decrees published in 1824 and 1829 -during their respective presidential mandates.
• In Chile the "freedom of wombs" was decreed - the children of slaves were born free - in October 1811. Slavery was definitively abolished by the Political Constitution of the State in December 1823, making Chile the first Latin American country in doing it officially.
• In the United Provinces of the River Plate (germ of the current Argentina) was approved in 1813 the "freedom of bellies", but slavery was not abolished until the Argentine Constitution of 1853.
• Uruguay declared the Freedom of Bellies in its first Constitution (1830) and abolished the Slavery on December 12, 1842, by means of Law No. 242