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SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861

START OF THE CIVIL WAR

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
On March 1, 1861, a few months after the Southern states seceded, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office to become president. The passage below comes from the speech Lincoln gave right after taking the oath of office. Use it to answer the question below.In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath . . . to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it.importantmomentous:importantassail:attacksolemn:serious
A
The legislative branch
B
secessionists
C
himself
D
antislavery leaders
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The attack on Fort Sumter prompted four more states to join the Confederacy. With Virginia’s secession, Richmond was named the Confederate capitol.

Detailed explanation-2: -The fall of Fort Sumter brought the secession crisis to the breaking point. On April 15, President Abraham Lincoln called for 75, 000 volunteers to serve in the U.S. Army for a period of ninety days. In doing so, Lincoln answered the South’s challenge to civil war.

Detailed explanation-3: -We often associate the Civil War with the end of slavery-and for good reason. But Lincoln’s primary goal in going to war was to save the Union, slavery or not.

Detailed explanation-4: -On December 20, 1860, South Carolina seceded from the United States, and by February 2, 1861, six more states followed suit. Southern delegates met on February 4, 1861, in Montgomery, AL., and established the Confederate States of America, with Mississippi senator Jefferson Davis elected as its provisional president.

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