Why Did Both Northerners and Southerners Race to Establish Strongholds

question 61

Multiple Choice

Why did both Northerners and Southerners race to establish strongholds in Kansas after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• A) to vote in elections on the status of slavery in Kansas
• B) to lay claim to the rich farmland
• C) to buy up valuable land along the proposed railroad line
• D) to prepare for sectional war

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