Answer the question: "Why were the South's political leaders so worried about whether slavery would be permitted in the West when geography and climate made it unlikely that slavery would ever prosper in the area?"
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Southerners were eager to establish in principle their right to expand slavery into the territories in the event more hospitable environs were annexed (Central America, Cuba). They needed to counter the precedent of the Northwest Ordinance and Missouri Compromise's ban on slavery. Historically, slave states entered the Union only from territories where slavery had been allowed before statehood.
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A) Michigan Governor Frank Murphy called in the National Guard to protect the strikers. B) GM was desperate for additional workers and gave in to their demands. C) President Roosevelt threatened to nationalize the plant if the strike was not ended. D) communist members of the CIO agreed to resign as a condition of ending the strike.
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