Why Did So Many Northerners, Including the So-Called Independent Democrats

question 71

Multiple Choice

Why did so many northerners, including the so-called Independent Democrats, oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• A) They opposed the admission of both territories as states.
• B) The act repealed the Fugitive Slave Law.
• C) The act would bring about immediate abolition.
• D) The act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
• E) They opposed the law because it did not embrace "popular sovereignty."

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