The event that touched off the process of secession for the majority of southern states was..?

Question

1) john brown's raid
2) antiunion riots in Baltimore
3) the bombardment of Ford Sumter
4) "Bleeding Kansas"
5) The election of lincoln to the presidency

Answer 1

Lincoln's election was what started the secession of southern states. Many of the states proclaimed that if Lincoln was elected then they would seceed. Lincoln's election platform was not to end slavery (as is commonly believed) but to stop slavery from expanding. It was only later, after the Civil War had started, that Lincoln came out on the position that slavery should be abolished.

Answer 2

The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Lincoln and the Republican get at the same time antagonistic the extension of slavery into any newly shaped states yet did not help outright abolition at this factor besides the indisputable fact that the Southern radicals would have none of it. confident that there replaced into abolition replaced into the authentic purpose of the Republicans, South Carolina exceeded an ordinance of secession said finally with the help of the ten different slave states.

Answer 3

Lincoln's election. The South saw his ascension to the presidency as a threat to their way of life.

Answer 4

Number 5. That was the last straw for the South as they knew the end of slavery was coming.

Answer 5

Lincoln's election was the motive.

Answer 6

Hmm, now we are getting to the good questions. I would have to answer either # 3 or # 5

Answer 7

Are you taking AP U.S. History, and we just took a Civil War test today and it sounds familiar to the questions you are asking