The Answer is <u>A</u>. The court ruled the state of Florida's court-ordered manual recount of vote ballots in the 2000 presidential election was unconstitutional under the "Equal Protection Clause" of the 14th amendment.
Here was no profit in it for most northerners and it would provide a way for wage slaves to find opportunities somewhere besides in the north.
They wanted cheap labor and the west would slim the pickings provided by desparation and poverty .