In the mid 1850s, the Whig party divided into Conscience Whigs and Conservatives along the following lines:
A) Conscience Whigs were pro tariff and conservatives were not.
B) Conscience Whigs opposed slavery; conservatives embraced the Compromise of 1850.
C) Conscience Whigs were generally Southerners; conservatives were from the North.
D) Conscience Whigs wanted to ban immigration; conservatives supported limitations on immigration but not an outright ban.
E) Conscience Whigs favored government-sponsored internal improvements; conservatives thought states should pay for their own improvements.
B
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