Question

As the sectional crisis over California intensified in 1850, A) Northern states considered leaving the Union. B) President Zachary Taylor decided to compromise. C) Northern politicians banned slavery everywhere. D) Southern states considered leaving the Union.

Answer 1

As the sectional crisis over California intensified in 1850, "D) Southern states considered leaving the Union" These compromises were a big part of the origin of the war.

Answer 2

As the sectional crisis over California intensified in 1850, Southern states considered leaving the Union. Option D is correct.

This constituted one of the majort factors leading to Civil War.

During the 1850s, sectional differences within the United States, largely about slavery, spread as the country's leaders debated whether to allow slavery to expand into the western territories and as criticism of slavery intensified in some free states.