"This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed indeed for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated." — Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, 1820
Jefferson's prediction was most directly fulfilled by which later event?
- Acheck_circle
The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealing the Missouri line
- B
Texas annexation in 1845
- C
The Wilmot Proviso of 1846
- D
The Compromise of 1850 admitting California
Explanation
Stephen Douglas' Kansas-Nebraska Act explicitly repealed the 36 degrees 30 minutes restriction, reigniting sectional crisis as Jefferson feared.