The Kansas-Nebraska Act helped kill the Whig party because
a. when southern Whigs voted for it, northern Whigs left the party.
b. when southern Whigs voted for it, they were defeated at the polls.
c. the act’s popularity led to an upsurge in the Democratic vote.
d. no Democrats supported it.
e. all of these choices.
ANS: A
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