Which of the following best describes a similarity between the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska act that Richard Cordley describes and those of the Wilmont Proviso? (APEX)
The [Kansas-Nebraska Act] provided that the people of the territory should themselves determine whether it should be slave or free. "Let us settle Kansas with people who will make it free by the own voice and vote." William H. Seward had foreshadowed this policy in a speech in the United States Senate. "Come on, then, gentlemen of the slave states. Since there is no escaping your challenge, we accept it in the name of freedom. We will engage in competition for the virgin soil of Kansas, and God give the victory to the side which is stronger in numbers, as it is in right."
A. Each extended the rights of slave owners under the Constitution's Due Process clause
B. Each reflected the North's growing ability to curtail slavery in the South and West
C. Each promoted an equal power-sharing political arrangement between the Northern and Southern states
D. Each proposed a legal solution to end the controversy over slavery in American territories