Map: Size of Slaveholdings, 1860

question 30

Multiple Choice

Map: Size of Slaveholdings, 1860

-Which of the following was the most significant cause of the trend depicted in the map?

• A) Antislavery advocates in the east were pushing slavery westward.
• B) the lack of political attempts to limit the expansion of slavery
• C) The growth in the slave population led to its westward expansion.
• D) Overcultivation depleted arable land in the Southeast.

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