Americans Who Lined Up Behind the Free Soil Cause in the Late

question 32

Multiple Choice

Americans who lined up behind the free soil cause in the late 1840s

• A) argued that Texas should be returned to Mexico to halt the spread of slavery.
• B) demanded that Texas be the final slave state admitted to the Union.
• C) declared that slavery threatened American republicanism by undermining family farms.
• D) called for the immediate abolition of the sinful institution of slavery.

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