Multiple choice

What did the South gain from both the Compromise of the 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

  1. an enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law

  2. a provision to honor the Mason-Dixon line

  3. gradual elimination of slavery in the territories added

  4. use of popular sovereignty about slavery in the territories
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Both the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act utilized the concept of popular sovereignty, which allowed residents of a territory to vote on whether to permit slavery.

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