Answer: Voting power
Explanation:
Abolitionists sought to abolish slavery in the United States and for that to happen they needed a majority in Congress. New States also got to send representatives to Congress and vote on government policy.
It was therefore imperative that a state entered the Union as a free state so that when it sent representatives to Congress (especially the Senate), those reps could vote in favor of abolishing or at least limiting slavery.
<span>B) Great Britain's defeat in the American Revolution.
The Treaty of Paris (1783) ceded these lands after the American Revolution.</span>
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