Which statement most closely reflects William Lloyd Garrison's view of slavery?

The only solution to the slavery question is a federal slave code.

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Slavery must immediately be abolished in all areas of the United States.

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There should be no extension of slavery to the territories in the West.

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The question of slavery should be settled by popular sovereignty.

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The question of slavery in the territories of the West should be decided in the future.

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Solution

The correct option is B Slavery must immediately be abolished in all areas of the United States.
Slavery must immediately be abolished in all areas of the United States reflects William Lloyd Garrison's view of slavery. William Lloyd Garrison wanted the immediate abolition of slavery throughout the United States. Incorrect options are:

a. The creation of a national slave code was advocated by John C. Breckinridge in the election of 1860.

c. The idea of no extension of slavery to the territories in the West was supported by Abraham Lincoln.

d. Popular sovereignty was the solution to the slavery question offered by Stephen Douglas

e. Leaving questions of slavery to be decided in the future was John Bell's position.

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I. "The Kansas-Nebraska Act authorizes the further extension of slavery and we have, do now, and will continue to protest most emphatically against slavery." (1854)

II. "The territories were the common property of the several states. As a joint agent of the states, Congress has no power to deny the citizens of any state the right to take their property into a territory Therefore slavery is legal in the territories. If Wilmot carries, woe, woe I say to the union." (1850)

III. "We beg the slave owners to pause before they proceed further to disturb the peace we had hoped the Compromise of 1850 would have made perpetual." (1854)

Which of the above statement(s) would John C. Calhoun have supported?

Q. When was slavery abolished in the northern states?

Q. "We are opposed to the extension of slavery because it diminishes the productive powers of its population. It is an obstacle to compact settlements and to every general system of public institution. If slavery goes into the territories the free labor of all the states will not. If the free labor of all the states goes there, the slave labor of the southern states will not, and in a few years the country will teem with an active and energetic population."

-Editorial, New York Evening Post, 1847

Why will free labor not go where there is slavery, according to the above excerpt?

Q. When was slavery abolished in America?

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