Question 7 • (MACS) 2021 NY-US History CR Summer Quarter 1
The Kansas-Nebraska Act let settlers in those territories decide whether to allow slavery, and it overturned the Missouri Compromise restriction that had barred slavery there. Free-Soil members feared that enslavers would move into the territories and establish slavery. Choice A refers to free states, where slavery was already prohibited; the concern was slavery spreading into the territories.
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