Supporters of the Kansas-Nebraska Act defended the law by claiming that it

a. embraced the principle of popular sovereignty.
b. protected the founders’ vision of United States as a prosperous nation.
c. was the only way to ensure that the South would eventually become free.
d. bolstered the Missouri Compromise.
e. would end the Fugitive Slave Act.


ANS: A

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