Why did it matter to the Southern states whether or
not new states had legal slavery?
A
The more states that had slavery the more
power they had in the government.
B
If slavery was legal in more places,
slaveowners would have more customers to
sell slaves to.
ะก
Plantation owners wanted to expand their
farms and slaves to Western territories with
more fertile land.
D
They believed that the government was about
to make slavery illegal across the Southeast