Senator John C

Multiple Choice

Senator John C. Calhoun's plan to protect the South and slavery and maintain the Union involved all of the following EXCEPT

A) maintain the legality of slavery where it existed in states and certain western territories.
B) return runaway slaves back to their slaveowners in the South.
C) an impractical, unwieldy political scheme of electing two presidents, one from the North and one from the South, each possessing an executive veto.
D) restore the political balance in the Senate of free states and slave states.
E) prevent the spread of slavery in the California territory.