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Why did the Southern states secede after the election of 1860?

SAT · US History · previous-year question

  1. A.They were attacked.
  2. B.The tariff was too high.
  3. C.They wanted to preserve slavery.
  4. D.Virginia encouraged them.
  5. E.They had lost Missouri.

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