SAT US History Practice Question

"We are opposed to the extension of slavery because it diminishes the productive powers of its population…. It is an obstacle to compact settlements and to every general system of public institution. [If slavery goes into the territories] the free labor of all the states will not…. [I]f the free labor of all the states goes there, the slave labor of the southern states will not, and in a few years the country will teem with an active and energetic population." -Editorial, New York Evening Post, 1847 Why will free labor not go where there is slavery, according to the above excerpt?

1. A.African Americans are inferior.
2. B.Free laborers are morally opposed to slavery.
3. C.Slaves work too hard and would force out free laborers.
4. D.Slaves prevent the growth of productive communities.
5. E.Free laborers do not want to work next to slaves.