Why did Stephen Douglas want to organize the land west of Iowa and Missouri into territories?
A) so that the new transcontinental railway could originate in his home state of Illinois
B) to expand the reach of slavery
C) to increase the number of antislavery states
D) to promote manifest destiny
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