B. The North wanted the new territories to be free states, while the South wanted them to be slave states.
If this is a true or false, the answer is true.
Large racial and gender wage gaps in the U.S. remain, even as they have narrowed in some cases over the years. Among full- and part-time workers in the U.S., blacks in 2015 earned just 75% as much as whites in median hourly earnings and women earned 83% as much as men.
