Why Did John C

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Multiple Choice

Why did John C. Calhoun argue that it was unconstitutional to prohibit slavery in the territories?

• A) Calhoun believed that the territories were the common property of all states.
• B) Calhoun believed that the nation's continued economic development depended on the extension of slavery.
• C) Calhoun, as the leader of the Young America movement, saw that it was essential to keep slavery legal in the territories so that it could later be extended to Cuba and Central America after they became U.S. possessions.
• D) Calhoun cited the hypocrisy of northern industrialists and their use of "wage slavery" as justification that slavery in the territories should be allowed because it was more humane.

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