Multiple Choice
Why did the southern states secede from the Union and form the Confederacy?
A) They wanted to preserve slavery.
B) The Fugitive Slave Act violated popular sovereignty.
C) They wanted to protest the Dred Scott decision.
D) They supported Stephen Douglas in the 1860 election.
E) The majority of southern whites were slaveholders.
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