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The immediate cause of Southern secession from the Union was

SAT · US History · previous-year question

  1. A.the raid on Harpers Ferry
  2. B.the Pottawatomie Massacre
  3. C.the election of Abraham Lincoln
  4. D.the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  5. E.the determination of Kansas to be a free state

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