How Did Many Abolitionists in the 1840s and 1850s Attempt

question 8

Multiple Choice

How did many abolitionists in the 1840s and 1850s attempt to make their issue more attractive to white northerners?

• A) They called for a complete and immediate end to slavery in the United States.
• B) They advocated slave insurrections against plantation owners.
• C) They called for limitations on the geographic expansion of slavery.
• D) They called for slavery to end by 1870.

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