Robert E. Lee joined the Confederacy because he
a. was offered more money by the Confederacy than he was making in the Union military.
b. owned over two hundred slaves and feared that he would be bankrupted if they were freed.
c. believed the Southern states had a constitutional right to secede from the Union.
d. was anxious to help weaken the North.
e. loved his home state of Virginia and could not fight against it.
e
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