Answer: D police refused to enforce laws protecting African American rights.
Explanation:
<span>The primary purpose of the Immigration Act of 1924 was to "to reduce Asian and European immigration" since it limited the number of immigrants who could enter the United States per year from a specific country. </span>
Over 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln and Stephan A. Douglas held seven debates as they campaigned for a Senate seat in Illinois. The debates focused on the issue of slavery and its expansion into the territories. Douglas helped overturn the prohibition on slavery in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska with the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Referred to as popular sovereignty, citizens in Kansas and Nebraska, not the federal government, could determine whether slavery should be allowed to exist in these territories.
Abe most likely said that, because if he said slavery was wrong at the time people would disagree and go against him which is very sad but true.