The Free-Soil movement supported the exclusion of slavery from the territories because __________
A) it believed in racial justice
B) it believed in the immorality of slavery
C) it feared the outbreak of slave insurrections in the territories
D) of racial prejudice and fear of labor competition from freed slaves
E) most western land was unsuited for plantation agriculture
Answer: D
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