SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
SOUTHERN SECESSION
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Question
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On December 20, 1860, a special convention made up of mainly white slave owners unanimously approved an Ordinance of Secession. Thereby removing South Carolina from the union and proclaiming the State of South Carolina an Independent Commonwealth.
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Senate established its so-called Committee of Thirteen as a last-ditch effort to prevent the breakup of the Union on the same day that South Carolina became the first state to vote for secession.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thursday December 20, 1860 On this day, a secession convention meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, unanimously adopted an ordinance dissolving the connection between South Carolina and the United States of America.
Detailed explanation-3: -It has announced that the South shall be excluded from the common territory, that the judicial tribunals shall be made sectional, and that a war must be waged against slavery until it shall cease throughout the United States.
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