Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 in hopes of

a. increasing the number of slave states.
b. increasing the number of free states.
c. quelling Northern fears of new slave states being admitted into the Union.
d. quelling Southern fears of new free states being admitted into the Union.
e. ending South Carolina’s threats of secession.


ANS: D

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