Stephen A. Douglas’s motives for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Bill

Stephen A. Douglas’s motives for introducing the Kansas-Nebraska Bill included all of the following EXCEPT

A) he wanted to secure a right-of-way for a Chicago-to-Pacific Coast transcontinental railroad.
B) he felt geography and climate would prevent slavery from ever extending into the Kansas-Nebraska Territory.
C) he believed that popular sovereignty was not a workable solution to the slavery question.
D) he wanted to be president.

ANSWER
C