Author Question: In the 1850s, what did filibusters like William Walker do? A) They talked unceasingly in Congress ... (Read 39 times)

leilurhhh · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

In the 1850s, what did filibusters like William Walker do?

A) They talked unceasingly in Congress to prevent the passage of any antislavery legislation.
B) They spoke on behalf of the Ostend Manifesto.
C) They led bands of proslavery ruffians into Kansas to vote illegally for a proslavery state legislature.
D) They conducted raids across the border between Canada and Oregon, in an attempt to retake lost territory.
E) They organized unofficial military expeditions to Cuba and Central America.

Question 2

What did anti-slavery northerners come to fear about expansionist southerners?

A) They were conspiring to make the Caribbean a slave empire.
B) The South would annex Cuba and make it a slaveholding region.
C) The South intended to bring slaves to the new western territories, despite the various compromises that had been struck.
D) The South would start a war over slavery.
E) None of these choices