Why are minutes and seconds important to finding the absolute location of a place?

they tell the lines of longitude apart the closer you get to the south pole.

they increase between lines of latitude the closer you get to the north pole.

they tell exactly where a place is between lines of latitude or longitude.

they make the measurements more accurate closer to the equator.

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