Question

Northerners wanted a law that would ___

1.admit California as a slave state
2.force the return of runaway slaves
3.abolish the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
4.allow slavery in the new territories

Answer 1

most northerners wanted to abolish slavery, any new state that would come into the nation would be considered a free state, while any new state that was brought into the South would allow slavery.