For southerners, what was the most appalling feature of the Compromise of 1850?
a. The admission of another nonslave state.
b. Popular sovereignty.
c. Fugitive slave law.
d. The legalization of the Underground Railroad.
ANSWER: a
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a. the growing moral criticism of segregation by white church leaders. b. blacks' increasing awareness during and after the war of the gap between American democratic ideals and racial practices. c. the appointment of Thurgood Marshall, chief legal counsel of the NAACP, to the Supreme Court. d. Dwight Eisenhower's commitment to civil rights. e. the agitation of A. Philip Randolph.
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