In the wake of the Mexican War, pro-slavery southerners
a. expected at least part of California to be a slave state.
b. were stunned by the rapidity with which California was populated.
c. feared California statehood because it meant the end of the old balance of free and slave states in the Senate.
d. none of these.
e. all of these choices.
ANS: E
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