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Slavery Expansion and Sectionalism · US History

What did many Southern leaders argue about slavery in the territories?

  1. That Congress had a duty to protect slaveholders' property rights there
  2. That slavery should be limited only to the original thirteen states forever
  3. That enslaved people should vote on territorial laws
  4. That all territories should become free states automatically
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Correct answer: That Congress had a duty to protect slaveholders' property rights there

Southern leaders often argued that enslaved people were property and that slaveholders had a constitutional right to take that property into federal territories. This argument directly challenged Northern efforts to restrict slavery's spread.

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