Which of the Following Was One of the Reasons Why

question 92

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was one of the reasons why some antislavery northerners believed there was a southern conspiracy to extend slavery into the Southwest?

• A) Texas was being settled by German, pro-slavery immigrants.
• B) Abolitionists had uncovered a plot by southerners to invade Mexico and reinstitute slavery.
• C) Slaveholder Andrew Jackson had accepted southern participation in the Battle of the Alamo.
• D) There was southern talk of creating an independent nation out of the Texas Territory.
• E) President Tyler, a states' rights Democrat from Virginia, maneuvered to arrange the annexation of Texas.

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