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Many Northern workers rejected the goals of the abolitionist movement

because

(A) Congress imposed a gag rule

(B) African-Americans lacked education

(C) they feared competition for jobs

(D) the Constitution clearly supported slavery

(E) southern cotton production was needed to keep the factories running

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They feared competition for jobs.
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