Which of the following statements about the American political environment in the mid 1800s is FALSE?
a. Most new territory added to the Union after 1850 would likely be slave states, which made the North
nervous.
Northerners felt slavery was an economic disadvantage to white people also.
C. The anti-slavery movement in the North was gaining momentum in the second half of the 1800s.
d. Compromises made by Congress to balance the power between slave states and free states were
not working