Why might many Southerners have been disappointed in their fellow Southerner Zachary Taylor?
A) Taylor vocally denounced slavery after becoming president.
B) Taylor blocked the intention of several Southern states to secede from the Union.
C) Taylor decided that Congress should no longer determine whether slavery should be allowed in new territories.
D) Taylor proposed that residents of California and New Mexico decide the question of slavery themselves.
E) Taylor backed the legislation that became the Compromise of 1850.
D
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