What events led to the secession of the southern states?

What will be an ideal response?


The election of 1860

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Vasco da Gama attacked Calicut and mutilated Muslim seamen because __________

A) they refused his offer to open trade relations B) Muslims had killed his Portuguese merchants in India C) they attacked him on his way back from Brazil D) they refused to sell him opium

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Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika resulted in:

a. An end to shortages in Soviet stores. b. A rise in exports for profitable consumer goods. c. A meager 5% of total production being devoted to market production. d. The suppression of “cooperatives”, the communist euphemism for private businesses.

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General Burgoyne’s entire army was forced to surrender at the Battle of __________

A) Trenton B) Bunker Hill C) Yorktown D) Saratoga

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The Union general who replaced Winfield Scott as commander of Union forces was __________

A) Irvin McDowell B) Joseph Hooker C) Robert E. Lee D) William Tecumseh Sherman E) George McClellan

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