SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
THE ELECTION OF 1860
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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he had to declare war on the south
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he should just let them be their own country with their own laws
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that the south was still a part of the US
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that he didn’t have to worry about it and they’d eventually want to come back
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -secession, in U.S. history, the withdrawal of 11 slave states (states in which slaveholding was legal) from the Union during 1860–61 following the election of Abraham Lincoln as president. Secession precipitated the American Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -Southern states were concerned that the Republican government would attempt to abolish slavery. The abolition of slavery would devastate the Southern economy and made Southern states fearful that their states’ rights would be violated. The first state to secede from the Union was South Carolina.
Detailed explanation-4: -Southern states feared Lincoln would abolish slavery. Radical southerners, known as Fire Eaters, advocated for southern secession in the 1850s if the Republican Party won the election.