Sheri has chosen to speak about the Japanese practice of bonsai and the success she has had cultivating a small, potted tree. To prepare for her speech, she wants to determine her audience's toward the topic by considering the audience interest in bonsai, knowledge about it, and attitudes toward it.

The ideas of hammond are most clearly an example of which of the following mid-19th century developments? (5 points) the increasingly liberal nature of slavery after the south enforced stronger slave codes the growing use by northern antislavery activists of moral arguments the increasing number of freed slaves in southern states as a result of gradual emancipation laws the growing tendency of southern slaveholders to use the paternal ethos to justify slavery