The line you’re referring to I believe is from the poem, “Oh, Captain! My Captain!”
The lines refers to the fact that the North has won the Civil War (in the United States).
In late 1938, 125,000 applicants lined up outside US<span> consulates hoping to obtain 27,000 visas under the existing immigration quota. By June </span>1939<span> ... In a highly publicized event in May–June </span>1939<span>, the </span>United States refused<span> to admit over 900 Jewish </span>refugees<span> who </span>had<span> sailed from Hamburg, Germany, on the St. Louis.</span>
He must've sinned a whole lot!!
A is the answer im pretty sure
It made things worst because it made it harder for the slave to escape to freedom.